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Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood

1979317 pagesabout 5–7 hours
1979
first published
  • 1979Simon & Schuster · 317 pages · ENGISBN 9780671251154
  • 1979McClelland and Stewart · 317 pages · ENGISBN 9780771008078
  • 1986Virago · 317 pages · ENGISBN 9780860681922
  • 1996Bantam Books · 351 pages · ENGISBN 9780553377828
  • 1998Anchor Books · 361 pages · ENGISBN 9780385491105
  • 2012Penguin Random House · 320 pages · ENGISBN 9781446496848
  • 1987Fawcett · 368 pages · ENGISBN 9780449213773
  • 2012ROBERT LAFFONT · 502 pagesISBN 9782221130605

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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Character focusTwo hander

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Romance levelCentralSubplot

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ThemesLove

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