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The Commons · Book by Margaret Atwood

Life Before Man

Publication date
1996-09-26
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780099745112
Language
eng
Literary Fiction

About the book

Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices – after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded. There is Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, who seeks solutions in the wrong men; Nate, wry and gentle husband of Elizabeth, racked by an inability to decide; and Lesje, quiet and inexperienced, who prefers dinosaurs to most men. Hanging over all of them is the ghost of Elizabeth’s dead lover…and the threat of three lives careering inevitably toward potential catastrophe.From the Hardcover edition.