Life Before Man

"Margaret Atwood has always been an adventurous writer."
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
Elizabeth and Nate's marriage is deteriorating slowly. They each take lovers, but the man Elizabeth is seeing commits an irrevocable act....Lesje and William live together, but are ambivalent about it. Nate is becoming obsessed with Lesje, who works with Elizabeth, and as the lives of the two couples become complicated and intertwined, they each form the link of an unstoppable chain of events that is slowly shattering them to pieces....