BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10: 0006548083 / ISBN 13: 9780006548089

Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 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 Londons 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 Lessings 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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• Titolo: BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL
• Editore: HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0006548083
• ISBN 13: 9780006548089
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Very Good
• Peso: 181 grammi

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Briefing For A Descent Into Hell, 9780006548089

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Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include The Grass is Singing, The Golden Notebook and The Good Terrorist. In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, The Times ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.