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Life Before Man

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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  • "Life before man. Finnish"
  • "Life before man. Français"
  • "Life before man"

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  • "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."@en
  • "Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices -- after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded. There is Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, who seeks solutions in the wrong men; Nate, wry and gentle husband of Elizabeth, racked by an inability to decide; and Lesje, quiet and inexperienced, who prefers dinosaurs to most men. Hanging over all of them is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover ... and the threat of three lives careering inevitably toward potential catastrophe."@en
  • "While married couple Elizabeth and Nate are both having affairs, their adolescent daughters become pawns in the ongoing drama."
  • "While married couple Elizabeth and Nate are both having affairs, their adolescent daughters become pawns in the ongoing drama."@en
  • "The story of three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, and forced to make choices after the rules have changed."
  • "Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people 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."
  • "Edition originale, 1979. Après s'être intéressée aux problèmes liés à la dualité linguistique canadienne (cf. ##Survival##), l'auteur aborde ici la dualité sexuelle. Elle fouille les relations qui unissent et divisent un couple (Elizabeth et Nate) au-delà de la coexistence pacifique qu'ils affichent en façade. Le mariage moderne, selon M. Atwood, n'a nullement mis fin à la guerre des sexes. Le Québec est bien présent dans l'oeuvre: Nate vit avec passion la période référendaire québécoise au milieu de l'indifférence des Torontois. [SDM]."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Powieść kanadyjska w języku angielskim"
  • "Canadian fiction (English)"
  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Kanadské romány (anglicky)"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "Tidenes morgen"
  • "Życie przed mężczyzną"
  • "Życie przed mężczyzną"@pl
  • "Life before Man"
  • "Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe (Life before man, dt.). Roman"
  • "La Vie avant l'homme : roman"
  • "Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe Roman"
  • "Life before man [Atwood]"
  • "Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe : Roman"
  • "Life before man : [a novel]"
  • "Muzeum zkamenělin"
  • "Life Before Man"@en
  • "Мужчина и женщина в эпоху динозавров"
  • "Muzhchina i zhenshchina v ėpokhu dinozavrov"
  • "I begyndelsen"@da
  • "Kivettyneet leikit"@fi
  • "Kivettyneet leikit"
  • "Ademden önceki yaşam"
  • "Muzeum zkamenĕlin"
  • "Het leven vóór de mens"
  • "A vida antes do homem"
  • "Life before man"@it
  • "Life before man"
  • "Life before man"@en
  • "Life befor man"
  • "I begyndelsen--"
  • "Zycie przed mezczyzna"
  • "Ademden önceki yaşam= Life before man"
  • "La vie avant l'homme : roman"
  • "Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe"

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