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Jul 14, 2009 | ISBN 9780307390622 Buy
Nov 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307777676 Buy
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Jul 14, 2009 | ISBN 9780307390622
Nov 17, 2010 | ISBN 9780307777676
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.
As the summer begins, Kate Brown — attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children — has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was — living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring — no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing’s brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her 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 self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the… More about Doris Lessing
"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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