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Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Vintage) - Softcover

Lessing, Doris

 
9780394746623: Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Vintage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0394746627 ISBN 13: 9780394746623
Publisher: Vintage, 1981

Synopsis

A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly "mad."

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Review

"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

About the Author

Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books--novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Publisher
Vintage
Publication date
1981
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0394746627
ISBN 13 
9780394746623
Binding
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
288