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Life Before Man by Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Life Before Man about?
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.
Who reads Life Before Man?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor, 1939-
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart-Bantam
- Published
- 1980
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780770417628
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.41 / 5 (108 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Life Before Man (1979)
- La Vie Avant L'homme: Roman (1979)
- Life Before Man (2012)
- Life Before Man (2022)
- Life Before Man (1998)
- Life Before Man (1996)
- الحياة قبل الإنسان [Arabic] (1979)
- Life Before Man (2010)
- Life Before Man (1981)
- Life Before Man (Contemporary Classics) (2007)
- Life Before Man (1983)
- La Vie Avant L'homme (prose étrangère) (1981)
- Life Before Man (2011)
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