LIFE BEFORE MAN
Book ID/图书代码： 03540094B0301
English Summary/英文概要： 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. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 三个中年人正处于人生的危机之中，生活规则的变化迫使他们做出艰难的选择。伊丽莎白，在长期压抑的性歪曲和愤怒之下，嫁给一个不合适的人。而她以前的恋人自杀了。她的丈夫内特温和而忧郁，正准备离她而去，跟一个不喜欢男人而喜欢恐龙的单纯的女孩生活在一起。然而伊丽莎白死去的恋人的鬼魂一直缠绕着他们……(LM)
Awards/获奖情况："A modern saga...she has a fine ear for words and a quick wit for absudities" The Times "An extraordinary imagination - witty, light-footed, realistic, yet with shooting insights into the nature of personality and love" -- Isabel Quigley Financial Times "Tender, funny, absorbing, idiosyncratic, truthful, heartening... A liberating novel. It deserves a wide readership" -- Michael Herbert Literary Review "Mordant intelligence; formidable insight into the springs of human self-deception, self-aggrandisement and self-destruction; and an effortless, always vivid style" -- Jeffrey Meyers Spectator "Beautifully written and constructed... A rich and elegant achievement" -- Peter Kemp Listener
About the Author/作者介绍： 玛格丽特•阿特伍德是二十世纪加拿大文坛上为数不多的享有国际盛名的诗人、小说家中的佼佼者。现居住于多伦多市。她已创作30多部作品，包括小说、诗歌、散文集等。她的小说《可以吃的女人》《浮升》、《贵妇人之神谕》、《肉体伤害》等等曾三次获布克奖提名。《侍女的故事》获得布克奖和总督小说奖，并被拍成电影。 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.
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