false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173419718m/286801.jpg 286801 16 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.<br><br>"A splendid and serious novel that reminds one once again of just how much the fictive imagination can order and enrich experience." &#8212; <i>National Observer</i><br><br>"Lessing's prose has the nervous intensity and quick, impressionistic lightness of some of D. H. Lawrence's later work. We are caught up in a rush of strong feeling."&#8212; Walter Clemons, <i>Newsweek</i><br><br>"(A) masterpiece...probably the best book she has written." &#8212; &#8212; 2727517 1973 The Summer Before the Dark (Flamingo Modern Classic) total:213|5:33|4:80|3:79|2:14|1:7| 213 757 338 26 1 2 true false Sat Jan 12 08:38:54 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 30 03:13:12 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 30 03:32:17 -0800 2007 5 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 23 20:43:52 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 19 08:26:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 02 15:02:26 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 08:38:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 29 21:03:15 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 29 21:16:33 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Aug 24 08:57:02 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 08:06:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Mar 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 19:27:55 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 19:27:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Dec 06 08:25:35 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 10 11:19:21 -0800 2007 3 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 18 08:27:05 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:40:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sun Mar 29 16:48:00 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 29 16:49:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 08 08:38:27 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 10:11:35 -0700 2008 The author is conscious about the hypocricy about the rol of women in a society controlled by men. Doris Lessing uses a sociological methodology for understanding the frus...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 09:18:09 -0700 2008 Wed May 21 11:55:09 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Nov 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 08 04:19:53 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 11 08:00:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu May 28 23:16:30 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 23:21:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 07:35:40 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 08:31:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 03 12:31:46 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 12:31:46 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Apr 12 22:45:00 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 12 22:45:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 13:33:34 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 24 13:33:34 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:13:49 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 02 06:14:36 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 12:13:12 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 15 10:33:19 -0800 2009 Th...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Dec 07 15:53:30 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 19 19:25:25 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=286801