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Paperback. Pub Date :2002-06-17 Pages: 256 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins UK 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 ...
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A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad."
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Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.
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- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0006548083
- ISBN 13 9780006548089
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 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. Seller Inventory # GOR001378909
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