The Summer Before the Dark

By: Doris Lessing

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Paperback | 14 July 2009

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288 Pages

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20.96 x 12.7 x 1.91

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Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age.

As the summer begins, Kate Brown-attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children-has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was-living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring-no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally and truly come of age.

Industry Reviews

"A masterpiece. . . . Probably the best book she has written." --The Economist "A splendid and serious novel that reminds one once again of just how much the fictive imagination can order and enrich experience." --The National Observer

"We are caught up in a rush of strong feeling. . . . Lessing's prose has the nervous intensity and quick, impressionistic lightness of some of D.H. Lawrence's later work." --Newsweek

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