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Briefing for a Descent Into Hell

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Based on 2,280 Ratings and 270 Reviews

Book Description
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 pyscholog... More
Book Information
PublisherVintage Books
BindingPaperback (29 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages320
ISBN-100307390616
ISBN-13978-0307390615
Publication Date07/14/2009
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About Doris Lessing (Author) : Doris Lessing is a published author of young adult books. Some of the published credits of Doris Lessing include Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Behind a Mask: The Unknown T... more
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