Life Before Man - Brossura

Atwood, Margaret Eleanor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0449213773 ISBN 13: 9780449213773

Casa editrice: Fawcett Books, 1990

Riassunto

An exploration of contemporary concerns--love, exploitation, survival, sex roles, personal power--centers on the inner lives and relationships of an attractive, independent woman, her ineffectual husband, and his passive, easily manipulated lover

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Recensione:

"Superb, complete--a splendid, fully integrated work." -The New York Times Book Review

"A penetrating, wry look at the changes affecting men, women and their family lives--The book has the acute perceptions and vivid imagery which are the hallmarks of Atwood's writing." -The Sunday Toronto Sun

"Crisp, carefully ironic, contemporary. Life Before Man offers us three characters of great complexity and roundness--Atwood has written a novel that is emotionally powerful, intelligent and very adult." -Ms. Magazine

"Tough poet, clever critic, brilliant novelist, feminist, nationalist, our chief literary heroine--a superb writer." -Toronto Star

"Margaret Atwood is a deeply serious writer who is also wildly funny." -Chatelaine

"Atwood writes with savage humor. Sentences are spare, kept under enormous compression, like a bent bow." -Esquire

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

y 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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• Editore: Fawcett Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0449213773
• ISBN 13: 9780449213773
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile