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Kates new life has brought her a strange unhappiness, but as the summer months unfold, a darker, disquieting journey begins, devastating in its consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA novel of self-discovery that bears the hallmarks of Lessings brilliance, honesty and power to move the reader, The Summer Before the Dark has been hailed by some as Lessings best book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem Descritpion\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNear fine copy with slight shelf wear to spine. 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So all the stories I write of a certain kind I think of as belonging under that heading; tales about white people, sometimes about black people, living in a landscape that not so very long ago was settled by black tribes, living in complex societies that the white people are only just beginning to study, let alone understand. Doris Lessing, from the Preface\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn this superb volume of African stories, Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country in which she grew up. The cruelties of the white man towards the native, the amorphous black mass, like tadpoles, faceless, who existed merely to serve, the English settlers, ill at ease, the gamblers and moneymakers searching for diamonds and gold, and the presence, latent always in the blood, of Africa itself, its majestic beauty and timeless landscape: Lessing draws them all together into a powerful, memorable vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264063226150,"sku":"OJWEMNHP","price":240.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/1d190835-63c2-4351-8323-33218aa2a08e.jpg?v=1701091607"},{"product_id":"the-story-of-a-non-marrying-man","title":"The Story of a Non-Marrying Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eJohnny Blakeworthy was a polite and gentle bigamist, a vagrant who concluded each of his many 'marriages' with a thank toy letter and ended his life known to the African villagers among whom he lived as 'The Man Who Has No Woman'. Hetty Pennefather was the embattled owner of an equally embattled cat who rejected the traditional occupations of widowhood for the free life of a rag-trader. Ephraim was a middle-aged diamond-cutter who fell in love with the daughter of an Alexandrian merchant and made his life a glittering homage to her. these richly individual characters appear together in \u003cem\u003eThe Story of a Non-Marrying Man\u003c\/em\u003e, perhaps Doris Lessing's most enjoyable collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47264419709222,"sku":"the-story-of-a-non-marrying-man","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/a591b8f9-a533-4640-9181-80a2715f2f8f.jpg?v=1701432919"},{"product_id":"the-grandmothers","title":"The Grandmothers","description":"The Grandmothers: Four Short Novels is collection of four short stories published in 2003 by 2007 Nobel laureate Doris Lessing. 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But by summer's end the woman she was--living behind a protective camouflage of feminine charm and caring--no longer exists. The Summer Before the Dark takes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47568816931110,"sku":"SUMMERBEFOREDARK","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/55fb5651-e646-4453-b7cf-5025e89c0537.jpg?v=1706360330"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/doris-lessing.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}