The Summer Before the Dark (Vintage International)

The Summer Before the Dark (Vintage International) Paperback – July 14, 2009 by Doris Lessing (Author).

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 288 pages
• Dimensions 133 x 201 x 15mm | 244g
• Publication date 14 Jul 2009
• Publisher Random House USA Inc
• Imprint Random House Inc
• Publication City/Country New York, United States
• Language English
• Edition Statement Reprint
• ISBN10 0307390624
• ISBN13 9780307390622