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Life Before Man
Margaret Atwood · 1979 · 384 pages
An exploration of contemporary concerns--love, exploitation, survival, sex roles, personal power--centers on the inner lives and relationships of an attractive, independent woman, her ineffectual husband, and his passive, easily manipulated lover.
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Kim Cattrall
“I’d been to the Natural History Museum there, so I could walk in Margaret’s world. It wasn’t just that, but the reveal of the relationships, and the subtlety of it and the beauty of her writing. I wanted very much to turn it into a film, but like a lot of great novels, they’re very difficult to translate. The action is active but it’s in your head. It’s a beautiful book.”↗