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The Summer Before the Dark by Lessing, Doris May, 1919- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Summer Before the Dark about?
<p><P>In a beleaguered city where rats and roving gangs terrorize the streets, where government has broken down and meaningless violence holds sway, a woman — middle-aged and middle-class — is brought a twelve-year-old girl and told that it is her responsibility to raise the child. This book, which the author has called "an attempt at autobiography," is that woman's journal — a glimpse of a future only slightly more horrendous than our present, and of the forces that alone can save us from total destruction.</p>
Who reads The Summer Before the Dark?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lessing, Doris May, 1919-
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307777645
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Science Fiction, Children'S
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (8,876 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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