num_pages: 309
description: 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. Hanging over them all is the ghost of Elizabeth's dead lover, and the dizzying threat of three lives careening inevitably towards the same climax.
language: English
title: Life Before Man
titlecomplete: Life Before Man
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary, Canadian Literature, Feminism, Canada, Novels, Drama, Classics
ratings_count: 7596
publisher: Vintage