LIFE BEFORE MAN
by Atwood, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0771008074
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008078
- Seller
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Mcclelland & Stewart. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0771008074 . HC/DJ - near fine/VG. Hardcover has very light edge wear, light soiling outer edge of pages. Interior is intact and clean other than a couple small spots and a few earmarks. Jacket has light edgewear, scuffing, and a few small edge tears, not price clipped. 317 pages. ; 8vo; In this satirical novel of romance and discontent, Elizabeth is an unhappily married woman whose lover has recently killed himself. Unbeknownst to her, her apparently ineffectual husband, Nate, has found the resolve to leave her and run off with Lesje, his paleontologist mistress. Running wordlessly through everyone's consciousness is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover, as well as the overwhelming suspicion that, in the end, happiness is forever out of reach..... (700) .
Synopsis
Life Before Man is a novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1979 and was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. The novel has three principal characters: Nate, Elizabeth and Lesje. Nate and Elizabeth are an unhappily married couple, with both husband and wife involved extramarital affairs.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Riverwood's Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2080
- Title
- LIFE BEFORE MAN
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0771008074
- ISBN 13
- 9780771008078
- Publisher
- Mcclelland & Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0771008074, Romance, Modern Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - Romance; Fiction - Modern Lit; Collectible - 1st Edition/Modern;
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Edmonton, Alberta
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