Overview
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.
- | Author: Doris Lessing
- | Publisher: Vintage
- | Publication Date: Jul 14, 2009
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0307390624
- | ISBN-13: 9780307390622
