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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	:	Deluxe 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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After drudging through page after page of Mrs. Michael Brown's good hair and bad hair, I ask myself the very same words so often uttered by the beautiful, pot-smoking, dancing waif Maureen: "'what's the point?'"

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

Not bad, but I got impatient with the main character. I felt she got a bit self-indulgent at the end. I don't remember anything "devastating in its consequences" either (blurb, you lie! or at least exaggerate!). Originally 3 stars but downgraded to 2 because even though I read it only five months ago I've already forgotten most of it. Any book that falls out of my head that fast can only be a meh.

I am at a loss for words. I'll be honest - I did not get much of what Doris Lessing was talking about yet - maybe - I feel exactly like she wants me to. Kate is searching. Kate is looking. At herself. At how people perceive her. And it is taking a toll on her. This was something I felt in a refined way after I finished Fire on the Mountain by Anita Desai. Reading Doris is unsettling in a crude way. It's too real. There's no point to it all. There's no storyline meandering to come to a conclusion

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

What can I say. Some writers tell, others show; Lessing reinvents you.

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