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Life Before Man Margaret Atwood

Life Before Man By Margaret Atwood

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood


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Summary

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover, and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably towards the same climax.

Life Before Man Summary

Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood

Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality and suppressed rage, 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 towards the same climax.

Life Before Man Reviews

"A modern saga...she has a fine ear for words and a quick wit for absudities" * The Times *
"An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love" -- Isabel Quigley * Financial Times *
"Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel. It deserves a wide readership" -- Michael Herbert * Literary Review *
"Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style" -- Jeffrey Meyers * Spectator *
"Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement" -- Peter Kemp * Listener *

About Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning Channel 4 TV series. Atwood has won numerous awards including the Booker Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Imagination in Service to Society, the Franz Kafka Prize, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade and the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019 she was made a member of the Order of the Companions of Honour for services to literature. She has also worked as a cartoonist, illustrator, librettist, playwright and puppeteer. She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Additional information

GOR001151825
9780099741015
0099741016
Life Before Man by Margaret Atwood
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1996-09-19
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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