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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Doris Lessing Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. ...
