The Summer Before the Dark
by:
Doris Lessing (author)
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307777676 (0307777677)
Publish date: November 17th 2010
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Literary Fiction,
Feminism,
English Literature,
Womens,
Nobel Prize
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 ...
It's probably typical of me that this minor work is the first of only two of Lessing's works I have read (the other is The Good Terrorist). Economical and piercing account of a year in a woman's life in the slippery ground between middle and old age.
Truly an excellent novel. It's been too long, now, to give it an adequate review, but I liked this book the best, I think, of anything I've read by Lessing.
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