Briefing for a Descent into Hell - Softcover

Lessing, Doris May

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394746627 ISBN 13: 9780394746623

Publisher: Vintage Books, 1981

Synopsis

RO60074381. BRIEFING FOR A DESCENT INTO HELL. 1981. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 278 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

About this title

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0394746627
• ISBN 13: 9780394746623
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback