Life Before Man (Contemporary Classics)

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Elizabeth, monstrous yet pitiable, Nate, her husand, a patchwork man, gentle, disillusioned; Lesje, a younger woman at the natural history museum, for whom dinosaurs are as important as men.nnA sexual triangle; three people in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. . . .

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Margaret Atwood is Canada’s most eminent novelist, poet and critic. Her books include The Edible Woman, Surfacing, Lady Oracle, Alias Grace, Cat’s Eye, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and The Handmaid’s Tale, which won both the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Governor-General’s Award, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and made into a major film. She lives in Toronto with the writer Graeme Gibson and their daughter.Table of ContentsA modern saga...she has a fine ear for words and a quick wit for absudities,An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love,Life Before Man - tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening - is a liberating novel. It desrves a wide readership,Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style,Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement