Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell by Doris Lessing

A study of a man beyond the verge of a nervous breakdown, this is a brilliant and disturbing novel by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

‘A brilliant, disturbing book…her most adventurous, imaginative experimentShe allows her didactic, satirical ideas about our civilization memorable expression.’ TLS

‘Doris Lessing breaks through the semantic barrier into speculative areas of psychic geography like some returned traveller, drawing new, real maps. She is alert to more of the crucial questions than most of us and, by describing their contours so exactly, comes nearer to the slow progress towards solution.’ Observer

Doris Lessing is one of the most important writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Her first novel, 'The Grass is Singing', was published in 1950. Among her other celebrated novels are 'The Golden Notebook', 'The Fifth Child' and 'Memoirs of a Survivor'. She has also published two volumes of her autobiography, 'Under my Skin' and 'Walking in the Shade'. Doris Lessing died on 17 November 2013 at the age of 94.

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ISBN 13	9780006548089
ISBN 10	0006548083
Title	Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
Author	Doris Lessing
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	1995-05-22
Number of pages	256
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