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The Summer before the Dark Study Guide

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by Doris Lessing
About 8 pages (2,263 words)
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Lessing's earlier novel Briefing for a Descent into Hell explores many of the same issues. Whereas her male protagonist, Charles Watkins, fails to achieve his identity, Kate Brown successfully completes her journey toward a greater, almost forgotten self-realization. Between the publication of these two novels, Lessing also wrote "The Temptation of Jack Orkney," a novella that presents another male protagonist undergoing.....

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The Summer before the Dark from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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