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Life Before Man

Life Before Man

by Margaret Atwood (Author)

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    Paperback 1996

    $3.54

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 19 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0099741016
ISBN 13: 9780099741015
Book Overview: 'A splendid work...superb' - Marilyn French

Media 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
Author Bio
Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Life Before Man, Bodily Harm, The Handmaid's Tale (winner of both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General's Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made in a major film). Cat's Eye (also shortlisted for the Booker Prize) The Robber Bride and Alias Grace. Finally, The Blind Assassin won the Booker Prize in 2000. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.