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      The Summer Before the Dark

      by Doris Lessing
      Published
      Apr 1973
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      273
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      As the summer begins, Kate Brown -- attractive, intelligent, forty five, happily enough married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children -- has no reason to expect anything will change. But when the summer ends, the woman she was -- living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring -- no longer exists. This novel. Doris Lessing's brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her 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 self that lets her, finally, come truly of age.

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      Feb 1983 Bantam ISBN13 9780553235692 ISBN10 0553235699
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      Jul 1975 Penguin (UK) ISBN13 9780140039993 ISBN10 0140039996
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      Mar 1983 Vintage ISBN13 9780394710952 ISBN10 0394710959
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      Jun 2002 HarperCollins ISBN13 9780586088999 ISBN10 0586088997
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      Jul 2009 Vintage ISBN13 9780307390622 ISBN10 0307390624
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      First Edition Apr 1973 Knopf ISBN13 9780394484280 ISBN10 0394484282
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      Nov 2010 Knopf ISBN13 9780307777676 ISBN10 0307777677
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      Nov 2010 Vintage ISBN10 B004AP9W3M
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      Nov 2012 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007383573 ISBN10 0007383576
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