Life Before Man
Author: Margaret Atwood
Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love.,,Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality and suppressed rage, 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. H….Read More
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