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The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf
The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf

The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing [U.S. FIRST EDITION] 1973 • Knopf

The Summer Before the Dark by Doris Lessing

U.S. FIRST EDITION [1973] ALFRED A. KNOPF

4th Printing / July 1973.

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket shows some visible wear and a few torn edges [now sealed]; but is otherwise bright and fully in tact; now housed in a HQ brodart jacket protector.

Book itself is in beautiful shape.  Clean cloth boards; tight binding and bright, white pages that read like new. 

The story of a middle-aged woman's search for freedom, from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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. A novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessing's brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, 'The Summer Before the Dark' has been hailed by some as Lessing's best book.