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Life Before Man

by Margaret Atwood · 1979

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.

Published
1979
Pages
320
ISBN
978-0-3854-9110-5
Readers
3 / 5 from 1 ratings (Open Library)
Genre
Literary Fiction

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