Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller (Vintage International)

Briefing for a Descent Into Hell: A Psychological Thriller (Vintage International) image
ISBN-10:

0307390616

ISBN-13:

9780307390615

Author(s): LESSING, DORIS
Edition: Reprint
Released: Jul 14, 2009
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
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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 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.












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