Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Lessing, Doris May

ISBN 10: 0394421981 / ISBN 13: 9780394421988

Edité par Knopf, New York, 1971

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A nice copy of the first edition, first printing. Text is tight, solid, and clean. Lettering to spine is bright and unflaked. In a Fine bright and glossy dust jacket with no fading to the yellow letters on the spine, which is very common for this title. No tears. No previous owner's names. No remainder mark or spray. Not Price Clipped. Not ex-lib. Not a Book Club Edition. Photos sent upon request. Accurate Descriptions/Quality Books/Unmatched Prices. N° de réf. du vendeur 5586

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Titre : Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Éditeur : Knopf, New York

Date d'édition : 1971

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Fine

Etat de la jaquette : Fine

Edition : First Edition

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Synopsis :

Book by Lessing Doris

Présentation de l'éditeur:

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.

Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.