The Summer Before the DarkNobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. As the summer begins, Kate Brown—attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children—has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was—living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring—no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes us along on Kate's 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 herself that lets her finally and truly come of age. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 4 |
Section 3 | 5 |
Section 4 | 6 |
Section 5 | 7 |
Section 6 | 8 |
Section 7 | 9 |
Section 8 | 26 |
Section 9 | 48 |
Section 10 | 78 |
Section 11 | 84 |
Section 12 | 122 |
Section 13 | 149 |
Section 14 | 180 |
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