Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
Language: English
Published by HarperColins Publishers, New York, New York, USA, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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BX6 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in very good condition. Stated first edition with a sequence of numbers appearing on the copyright page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in black paper covered boards quarter bound in textured black paper with gold lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps and label on the top outside paper edges, the front free endpaper, and the title page. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A novel about a young man who has never fit in. He is too big, too strong, and inhumanly made. His inability to fit in eventually takes him to to the Andes mountains where he at last discovers where he has come from and who his people are. By the author of "Love, Again," "Mara and Dann," "Under My Skin," and "Walking in the Shade." 178p. Size: 5.75"x8.5".…
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- Title
- Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Publisher
- HarperColins Publishers, New York, New York, USA
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Book Type
- Ex-Library
- Binding
- Hard Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0060196289
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196288
- Edition
- First American Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Fiction, Fiction::General Fiction, Fiction::Modern Fiction Firsts, Literature::Literary Novels
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.
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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.
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