Life Before Man

Trade Paperback – New

Margaret Atwood’s award-winning, urban Toronto novel vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, here are three people, each in midlife, in midcrisis, forced to make drastic choices–after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded. There is Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, her suppressed rage, who seeks solutions in the wrong men; her wry, gentle husband, Nate, 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.