num_pages: 355
description: Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices – after the rules have changed and the boundaries have become faded. There is Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality, who seeks solutions in the wrong men; Nate, wry and gentle husband of Elizabeth, racked by an inability to decide; and Lesje, quiet and inexperienced, who prefers dinosaurs to most men. Hanging over all of them is the ghost of Elizabeth’s dead lover … and the threat of three lives careering inevitably toward potential catastrophe.
language: English
title: Life Before Man
titlecomplete: Life Before Man
genres: Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Drama, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, Feminism, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 7591
publisher: McClelland & Stewart