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

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	:	First 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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Ratings: 3.61 From 2001 Users | 189 Reviews

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This is my first foray into Doris Lessing, 2007 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (and it confirmed my suspicion that Margaret Atwood is the one who should have won the award). Well, one is supposed to rate a book according to one's own idiosyncratic taste, especially on a semi-private forum like this. Hence, three stars. I do, however, admire the genius of this book, as well as Lessing's strong feminist message ("feminist" does seem something of an oversimplification for the complexity

I can't even force myself to finish this, but me and Lessing are definitely finished.

This is wonderful...She (Kate Brown) is 1/4 Portugese married to a lovely Englishman for many years & now at age 45 finds herself suddenly called into active duty as a bona fide Portugese translator...and into a new lifestyle....At Chapter 2 she is embarking on travel to Istanbul, Turkey....I am already amazed at the clever opportunities that this author uses!On the cover of my 1968 printed paperback I found and bought from Bookmans, also The Golden Notebook is also being promoted! I fear

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

The Summer Before The Dark is a great critique of femininity, marriage and the family as an institution - and a celebration of ideas of freedom, the self and how to live a previously unlived life. The heroine is forty-five.Most books both by and about women are coming-of-age tales with ingenue protagonists. Even supposedly feminist novels tend to reinforce the idea that a womans life hinges on her youth and desirability. This book is a coming-of-age tale in its own right, except that its an age

You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.

For a long time, feminism was considered radical. In fact, many people still think it is. (There, I said it). The terms connotation has been warped due to media, politicians, the patriarchy, societal expectations, the list goes on. Consequently, its no wonder that some believe feminism equates to hating men. While some individual feminists may in fact hate men, there is a difference between being a feminist and a misandrist. By definition, a feminist is a person who believes all people,