Life before man

Margaret Atwood

Original title: Life Before Man

earliest edition we have, 1979 Warner Books, 1984 291 pages

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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....

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Editions we hold

Life Before Man edition · 2022 · Penguin Random House · 9781784877644
La Vie avant l'homme - pav poche edition · 2012 · ROBERT LAFFONT · 502 pages · 9782221130605
Life Before Man edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 320 pages · 9781446496848
Life Before Man edition · 2012 · Simon & Schuster · 9781451686876
Life Before Man edition · 2010 · McClelland & Stewart · 368 pages · 9780771008856
A vida antes do homem edition · 2005 · Rocco · 351 pages
Мужчина и женщина в эпоху динозавров edition · 2005 · Eksmo · 381 pages
Życie przed mężczyzną edition · 2003 · Zysk I S-ka · 316 pages
Life Before Man audiobook · 2003 · BBC Audiobooks · 9780754009382
Muzeum zkamenĕlin edition · 2002 · Odeon · 317 pages
Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe paperback · 2001 · btb · 375 pages
Die Unmöglichkeit der Nähe edition · 1999 · Claassen · 335 pages

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