Briefing for a Descent into Hell (signed)
by LESSING, DORIS
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Hardcover. First Edition, First State. Just about fine in original brown boards and in like pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped/Fine
- Seller
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Potomac, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
First Edition, First Printing. Just about fine in original brown boards and in like pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped). Signed by author Doris Lessing on half-title page. The 2007 Nobel Prize winner's best novel. According to BBC Radio 4, the Swedish Academy, which awards the prize, described Lessing as "that epicist of the female experience, who with skepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny." "Oh good, did they say that about me?' Lessing replied. "Oh goodness, well obviously they like me better now than they used to."
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Grinning Cat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172
- Title
- Briefing for a Descent into Hell (signed)
- Author
- LESSING, DORIS
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Hardcover. First Edition, First State. Just about fine in original brown boards and in like pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1971
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
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