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In the summer before the dark, her treatment of the emotional gulf that opens up before a fortyfive year old woman no longer needed as a wife and mother is a starting point for much more a confrontation with the threat of annihilation, the terrors alf old. The summer before the dark resembles the authors first novel, the grass is singing, more than any since. Doris lessing s brilliant excursion into the terrifying stretch of time between youth and old age, is her journey. A novel of selfdiscovery that bears the hallmarks of lessings brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, the summer before the dark has been hailed by some as lessings best book. The summer before the dark by doris lessing mobipocket the summer before the dark by doris lessing epub vhci8enp7t1.
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