Briefing for a Descent into Hell - Couverture souple

Lessing, Doris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1400077265 ISBN 13 : 9781400077267

Editeur : Vintage, 1981

Synopsis

A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly “mad.” Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…

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À propos de l?auteur

Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1400077265
• ISBN 13: 9781400077267
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 288
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