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Life Before ManMargaret Atwood

Life Before Man

1979320 pages
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38 editions · 12 languages
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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.

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38 editions · 12 languages
  • Audiobook · English · 2003
    BBC Audiobooks · 9780754009382
  • Paperback · English · 1996
    Vintage · 9780099745112
  • Paperback · English · 1982
    Bantam · 9780770417628
  • Other · English · 2022
    Penguin Random House · 9781784877644
  • Other · English · 2012
    Simon & Schuster · 9781451686876
  • Other · English · 2012
    Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781446496848
FictionMan-woman relationshipsMarried peopleMiddle-aged womenWomen authorsCanadian fictionMarried people, fictionMan-woman relationships, fiction