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      Life Before Man

      by Margaret Atwood
      Published
      Jan 1980
      Main Genre
      Fantasy Fantasy
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      351
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      From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid's Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.

      Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make choices--after the rules have changed. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, is married to the wrong man. She has just lost her latest lover to suicide. Nate, her gentle, indecisive husband, is planning to leave her for Lesje, a perennial innocent who prefers dinosaurs to men. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover...and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably toward the same climax.

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      General Fiction Romance Speculative Fiction

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      Fantasy Literary

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      First Edition Jan 1980 Simon & Schuster ISBN13 9780671251154 ISBN10 0671251155
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      Sep 1979 McClelland & Stewart (Canada) ISBN13 9780771008078 ISBN10 0771008074
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