The Summer Before the Dark

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394710959 / ISBN 13: 9780394710952

Verlag: Vintage, 1983

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0394710959-3-32677115

Inhaltsangabe:

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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 author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.


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Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Summer Before the Dark
Verlag: Vintage
Erscheinungsdatum: 1983
Einband: Mass Market Paperback
Zustand: Good