The Making of the Representative for Planet 8

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0224020080 / ISBN 13: 9780224020084

Published by Jonathan Cape, 1982

About this Item

First edition UK hardback, 1982 Jonathan Cape Ltd.
The book is in very good+ condition, the dustjacket is in very good+ condition. Price clipped.
Fourth in The Canopus In Argos Archives.

Seller Inventory # 1053

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224020080
• ISBN 13: 9780224020084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

The fourth in Doris Lessing's visionary novel cycle "Canopus in Argos: Archives". It is a mix of fable, futuristic fantasy and pseudo-documentary accounts of 20th-century history.

About the Author

Doris Lessing was one of the most important writers of the second half of the 20th-century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her novels include "The Grass is Singing", "The Golden Notebook" and "The Good Terrorist". In 2001, Lessing was awarded the David Cohen Prize for a lifetime's achievement in British literature. In 2008, "The Times" ranked her fifth on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". She died in 2013.