Ben, in the World

Lesssing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0060196289 / ISBN 13: 9780060196288

Published by NY: Harper Collins, 2000

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Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ben, in the World
• Publisher: NY: Harper Collins
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060196289
• ISBN 13: 9780060196288
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st printing of 1st edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength. Ben's half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger. Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews

The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing's bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD.

At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.

About the Author

Winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, Doris Lessing was one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time, the recipient of a host of international awards. She wrote more than thirty books—among them the novels Martha Quest, The Golden Notebook, and The Fifth Child. She died in 2013.