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Ben, in the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0002261952
- ISBN 13
- 9780002261951
- Seller
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Summerville, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
London: Flamingo. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0002261952 . A handsome unread first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing directly on the title page; The sequel to The Fifth Child. Ben is now eighteen and must become part of the world even though he can never fit it. He is too huge and awkward, too strange. Alone and estranged from his family, he travels to London, France, Brazil and the Andes, searching for his people and a reason for his being. How will the world receive him and how will he fare? ; 8vo ; Signed by Author .
Synopsis
At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel's dramatic finale.
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- Bookseller
- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14361
- Title
- Ben, in the World - 1st Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0002261952
- ISBN 13
- 9780002261951
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Nobel Peace Prize Winners
- Bookseller catalogs
- Legendary Authors / Lessing, Doris;
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