Briefing for a descent into hell
by Doris Lessing
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair /Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224005073
- ISBN 13
- 9780224005074
- Seller
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Wellington, Auckland, New Zealand
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About This Item
Cape. Fair. 200mm / 140mm. Hardcover. 1971. 251 pages. Dj worn. Spine cocked. Ex-library<br>An extraordinary blend of fantasy and realism, this is classic Lessing. Penniless, rambling and incoherent, a man is found wandering at night on Lo ndon's Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated, he tell s the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage, adrift on the ... .
Synopsis
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.
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- Seller
- bookexpress.co.nz (NZ)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 3313k
- Title
- Briefing for a descent into hell
- Author
- Doris Lessing
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0224005073
- ISBN 13
- 9780224005074
- Publisher
- Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....