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The Summer Before the Dark
The Summer Before the Dark
Author: Doris Lessing
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780394710952
ISBN-10: 0394710959
Publication Date: 3/12/1983
Pages: 256
Rating:
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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3.3 stars, based on 8 ratings
Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 0
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Thoroughly sensitive and engaging novel, no matter what age you are or what circumstances you find yourself in. This author is Literature with a capital L.
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Outstanding story by Lessing, focusing on a mother who slips away from her matron role and discovers herself again. Not at all as cheesy as that sounds, sorry I write terrible blurbs. Great read, though.


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