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The Summer Before the Dark

Doris Lessing

Paperback | Pages: 236 pages

Rating: 3.61 | 2001 Users | 189 Reviews

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Title	:	The Summer Before the Dark
Author	:	Doris Lessing
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 236 pages
Published	:	June 17th 2002 by Paladin (first published 1973)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. Novels. Nobel Prize. European Literature. British Literature

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A middle-aged woman's search for freedom, this is classic Lessing, here given a stunning new image. Her four children have flown, her husband is otherwise occupied, and after twenty years of being a good wife and mother, Kate Brown is free for a summer of adventure. She plunges into an affair with a younger man, travelling abroad with him, and on her return to England, meets an extraordinary young woman whose charm and freedom of spirit encourages Kate in her own liberation. Kate's new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.

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Original Title:	The Summer Before the Dark
ISBN:	0586088997 (ISBN13: 9780586088999)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 3.61 From 2001 Users | 189 Reviews

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The lines of reality and fantasy are blurred in a horrible outcome.

Kate Brown is a 45-year-old London housewife and mother of four young adults who finds herself at a loose end. Neither her husband nor her children--all of whom are immersed in their own interests and do not spare her much thought at all--need her. She takes a job with an international civil service organization called Global Foods, the primary purpose of which is to host lavish conferences for well-heeled, jet-setting civil servants who are about as connected to the native workers they

Timing is all, and it seems like on first reading I completely missed the richness of the insights recorded in this short book. Skimming through it as a young adult, I could not imagine myself bogged down by such a miasma of self-deception as the narrator slogged her way through in search of her own authentic self.I certainly was never going to allow myself to be blinkered!Suffice to say, now that I am the age of the protagonist,I marvel at her courage and i found myself completely engaged by

Before it all slips away from my feeble psychological grasp, before the after-effects start wearing off, let me write it all out. About the summer before the dark.The first thing that struck me while reading was this - Fuck purple prose. Or red or maroon or magenta prose for that matter. (And I say this in full acknowledgement of the fact that my prose is often closer to purple than any other color.) Screw post-modernism and its deliberate way of being obtuse, obscure, snarky. Screw all that.

http://wineandabook.com/2014/04/15/re...GENERAL SPOILER ALERT: If youve never read The Summer Before the Dark, and would like to discover it with no previous knowledge of the plot, I suggest you stop here. Since it was published in 1973, and because Lessing is a NOBEL PRIZE WINNING AUTHOR, Im writing with the assumption that Im the one late to the party (which is usually the case) and many of you lovers of literary fiction have probably either read it already or are super familiar with the plot.

I know its great, but I just didn't get it.

Picked this up because i saw Lessing's name in a list of british sci-fi writers who are under-read in the US. Didn't realize that i was getting a book from before she veered into the genre (didn't realize that there had been a veer). So far, enjoying its subjectivity -- it is less surreal and mysterious than On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House, but i feel like they are closely related.Living in the head of a woman of another time (mid 20th Century) is alien enough that it might as well be