000 01026cam a2200157ua 4500
020 _a0770428258
082 _a813.54
_b ATW/L
100 _aAtwood, Margaret
245 1 0 _aLife before man
260 _aToronto
_bSeal Books
_c1998
300 _avii,392p.
520 _aElizabeth and Nate, though habitually unfaithful to each other, have remained married for more than a decade. But after Elizabeth’s latest lover commits suicide, she emerges from her grief to find that her gentle, indecisive husband is on the verge of leaving her. He has become enamored of Lesje, a young paleontologist and perennial innocent who seems to prefers dinosaur fossils to humans. Elizabeth sets her sights on Lesje’s live-in boyfriend, William, and the ensuing emotional maelstrom threatens to upend all of their lives. Blending painful honesty with cutting satire, Margaret Atwood give us characters whose haunting dilemmas linger long after the final page.
650 _aAmerican Literature
650 0 _aAmerican Fiction
942 _cBK
999 _c6689
_d6689