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The Summer Before the Dark
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Jul 14th, 2009
- Pages: 288
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.80in - 0.50lb
- EAN: 9780307390622
- Categories: • Literary• Women• Coming of Age
About the Author
More books by Doris Lessing
What people are saying
Literature Cambridge offers courses on great literature in English, taught by academics and open to the public. Summer courses and online study sessions.
Live online course: Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny. We study • The Grass is Singing, • The Golden Notebook • The Four-Gated City • The Summer before the Dark Four sessions, fortnightly, Sept-Oct. 2023. https://t.co/gIX3caLvId @NATEfeed https://t.co/zwtBgXgpGG
*Best Books of 1973 Tournament* Round 2, Match 12 The Black Prince, Iris Murdoch vs The Summer Before the Dark, Doris Lessing
Author of THE REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY (Tin House Books), winner of the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction.
I’ve just finished this and I think it’s my favorite Brookner novel so far, for those keeping score. It’s up there with Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark for gutting portraits of middle and late-middle age. (I’m a sucker for the what-ifs of a disappointing life.) https://t.co/GJvituejGh
Praise for this book
--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
What people are saying
Literature Cambridge offers courses on great literature in English, taught by academics and open to the public. Summer courses and online study sessions.
Live online course: Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny. We study • The Grass is Singing, • The Golden Notebook • The Four-Gated City • The Summer before the Dark Four sessions, fortnightly, Sept-Oct. 2023. https://t.co/gIX3caLvId @NATEfeed https://t.co/zwtBgXgpGG