THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK [signed]

Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013

ISBN 10: 0394484282 / ISBN 13: 9780394484280

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1973

About this Item

Octavo, 273 pages. In Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and orange print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$6.95". Boards in black cloth; slight wear to spine caps and corners, lightly cocked spine with mild buckle to spine. Text block has red tinted top edge; name in ink on front flyleaf, erasure on front pastedown, small stain to rear flyleaf. Signed in ink by the author on the title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1400812. FP New Rockville Stock.

Seller Inventory # 1400812

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK [signed]
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0394484282
• ISBN 13: 9780394484280
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

With her children grown and her husband away in America for several months, Kate Brown finds herself alone for the first time in twenty years

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