The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives)

Doris Lessing

ISBN 10: 039451906X / ISBN 13: 9780394519067

Published by Knopf January 1982, 1982

About this Item

used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Seller Inventory # 1361018

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Canopus in Argos: Archives)
• Publisher: Knopf January 1982
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 039451906X
• ISBN 13: 9780394519067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 1st Edition
• Condition: FIRST / VG
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • lit / fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life

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.