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.
- ISBN10 0553377825
- ISBN13 9780553377828
- Publish Date 1 December 1995 (first published 1 September 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 351
- Language English