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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing (Paperback, 1995)
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A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on London's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird. Identified as Charles Watkins, a Cambridge Classics professor, he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world, as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday... 'Briefing for a Descent into Hell' is one of Doris Lessing's most brilliantly achieved novels, linking her early work, which explored the nature of subjectivity, with her later experiments in science fiction. Its indictment of the tyranny of society is powerful, disturbing and, as always, magnificently rendered.Product Identifiers
PublisherHarpercollins Publishers
ISBN-139780006548089
eBay Product ID (ePID)94901326
Product Key Features
Book TitleBriefing for a Descent Into Hell
AuthorDoris Lessing
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year1995
Number of Pages256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height198mm
Item Width129mm
Item Weight200 g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorDoris Lessing
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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