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Life Before Man
by Margaret Atwood
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In this satirical novel of romance and discontent, Elizabeth is an unhappily married woman whose lover has recently killed himself. Unbeknownst to her, her apparently ineffectual husband, Nate, has found the resolve to leave her and run off with Lesje, his paleontologist mistress. Running wordlessly through everyone's consciousness is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover, as well as the overwhelming suspicion that, in the end, happiness is forever out of reach.
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9780449213773,
Paperback,
Ballantine Books,
1990
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9780671251154,
Hardcover,
Simon & Schuster,
1980
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9780553377828,
Paperback,
Bantam Dell Pub Group,
1996
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9780385491105,
Paperback,
Anchor Books,
1998
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9780771008078,
Book,
McClelland and Stewart,
1979
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Publisher Notes
"Margaret Atwood has always been an adventurous writer." CHICAGO SUN-TIMES Elizabeth and Nate's marriage is deteriorating slowly. They each take lovers, but the man Elizabeth is seeing commits an irrevocable act....Lesje and William live together, but are ambivalent about it. Nate is becoming obsessed with Lesje, who works with Elizabeth, and as the lives of the two couples become complicated and intertwined, they each form the link of an unstoppable chain of events that is slowly shattering them to pieces.…
Media Reviews
"[She has] given us real lives that are far more true than what we want. She has seen them in a highly original perspective. This anatomy of melancholy is Margaret Atwood's finest novel."
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