The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing. This item is unavailable.
Language: English
Published by New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House], 1973
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Condition: Used
£ 19.66
Item description from seller
Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 273 pages; Description: 273 p. 22 cm. Subject: Women -- Fiction. Aging -- Fiction. Loneliness -- Fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller Inventory # 68574
- Title
- The Summer before the Dark [By] Doris Lessing
- Author
- Lessing, Doris May (1919-)
- Publisher
- New York, Knopf; [Distributed By Random House]
- Publication year
- 1973
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0394484282
- ISBN 13
- 9780394484280
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
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Review
‘This is probably the best book Doris Lessing has ever written. It would be a deprivation not to read it at once.’ Economist
‘An honest, perceptive, serious book.’ Irish Times
‘Painfully, poignantly authentic.’ David Lodge, New Statesman
‘A summer journey of self-discovery which ends amazingly, in an act of self-definition so searching, so acute and total, one puts down the book shaken, enlarged, in awe. It is an ostensibly simple story, simply told, developing all the way and deepening: the particular universalised in a narrative of compelling power. No wonder Mrs Lessing has been spoken of in the same breath as Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn.’ Sunday Times
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