Life Before Man

1st Anchor Books Edition

Paperback (13 Apr 1998)

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Publisher's Synopsis

A particularly complicated love triangle sets this poetic novel in motion-from the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments

Elizabeth and Nate, though habitually unfaithful to each other, have remained married for more than a decade. But after Elizabeth's latest lover commits suicide, she emerges from her grief to find that her gentle, indecisive husband is on the verge of leaving her. He has become enamored of Lesje, a young paleontologist and perennial innocent who seems to prefers dinosaur fossils to humans. Elizabeth sets her sights on Lesje's live-in boyfriend, William, and the ensuing emotional maelstrom threatens to upend all of their lives. Blending painful honesty with cutting satire, Margaret Atwood give us characters whose haunting dilemmas linger long after the final page.

Book information

ISBN: 9780385491105
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Anchor Books
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Anchor Books Edition
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 361
Weight: 394g
Height: 202mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 19mm