{"product_id":"the-summer-before-the-dark-doris-lessing-9780307390622","title":"The Summer Before the Dark","description":"Nobel laureate Doris Lessing's classic novel of the pivotal summer in one woman's life is a brilliant excursion into the terrifying gulf between youth and old age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the summer begins, Kate Brown--attractive, intelligent, forty-five, happily married, with a house in the London suburbs and three grown children--has no reason to expect that anything will change. But by summer's end the woman she was--living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring--no longer exists. \u003cb\u003eThe Summer Before the Dark\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003etakes us along on Kate's journey: from London to Turkey to Spain, from husband to lover to madness, on the road to a frightening new independence and a confrontation with herself that lets her finally and truly come of age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Doris Lessing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307390624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307390622\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d","brand":"Doris Lessing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946414244095,"sku":"9780307390622","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_e8e9186d-d221-4a4f-acf4-89facc41ee0a.jpg?v=1681513015","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-summer-before-the-dark-doris-lessing-9780307390622","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}