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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. From the Paperback edition.
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The Summer Before the Dark, Doris Lessing
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
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- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Doris Lessing
- Verlag
- Vintage Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1983
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 256
- ISBN10
- 0394710959
- ISBN13
- 9780394710952
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Britische Literatur, Feminismus, Nobelpreis
- Originaltitel
- The summer before the dark
- Bewertung
- 3,65 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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. From the Paperback edition.