The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

The story of a middle-aged womans search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

‘This is probably the best book Doris Lessing has ever writtenIt would be a deprivation not to read it at once.’ Economist

‘An honest, perceptive, serious book.’ Irish Times

‘Painfully, poignantly authentic.’ David Lodge, New Statesman

‘A summer journey of self-discovery which ends amazingly, in an act of self-definition so searching, so acute and total, one puts down the book shaken, enlarged, in awe. It is an ostensibly simple story, simply told, developing all the way and deepening: the particular universalised in a narrative of compelling power. No wonder Mrs Lessing has been spoken of in the same breath as Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn.’ Sunday Times

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

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ISBN 13	9780586088999
ISBN 10	0586088997
Title	The Summer Before the Dark
Author	Doris Lessing
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1995-11-27
Number of pages	240
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