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Briefing for a Descent into Hell : A Psychological Thriller by Doris Lessing (2009, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100307390616

ISBN-139780307390615

eBay Product ID (ePID)71131136

Product Key Features

Book TitleBriefing for a Descent Into Hell : a Psychological Thriller

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Thrillers / Psychological, Literary, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2009

GenreFiction

AuthorDoris Lessing

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight8.9 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-372519

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Touching and beautiful." - The New York Review of Books "A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny." - Time "An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive." - The Washington Post Book World, "Touching and beautiful." -- The New York Review of Books "A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny." -- Time "An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive." -- The Washington Post Book World, "Touching and beautiful." -The New York Review of Books "A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny." -Time "An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive." -The Washington Post Book World

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SynopsisIn this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind., In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac. Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning raft in the Atlantic to a ruined stone city on a tropical island to an outer-space journey through singing planets. As he travels in his mind through memory and the farther reaches of imagination, his doctors try to subdue him with ever more powerful drugs in a competition for his soul. In this provocative novel, Lessing takes us on a harrowing voyage into the rarely glimpsed territory of the inner mind.

LC Classification NumberPR6023.E833B7 2009