{"product_id":"2026200008580-secondhand-life-before-man","title":"Life Before Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in Toronto during the late 1970s, Life Before Man is a quietly devastating domestic novel that chronicles the emotional lives of three people locked in a painful romantic triangle. Elizabeth, a composed and controlling museum curator, struggles to process the suicide of her lover while maintaining the façade of her failing marriage to Nate, a man torn between his wife and his younger girlfriend, Lesje — a paleontologist who finds more comfort in the age of dinosaurs than in the complexities of modern relationships. Atwood writes with surgical precision and unflinching psychological insight, laying bare the quiet desperation, loneliness, and moral ambiguity that underpin everyday life. Rich with irony and restrained emotion, the novel argues that the prehistoric world Lesje studies offers a telling mirror to the emotional extinctions playing out in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48956366618843,"sku":"2026200008580-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5dd125e1-7c15-4dac-ad27-ff574b07ca5b.png?v=1783500320","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200008580-secondhand-life-before-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}