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ISBN: 9780006548089 0006548083 – Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing. Published by Flamingo, 2002. Softcover. Used, Very Good condition. 252 pp.

Penniless. rambling and incoherent. a man is found wandering at night on London s Embankment. Taken to hospital and heavily sedated. he tells the doctors of his incredible fantastical voyage. adrift on the ocean, landing on unknown shores, flying on the back of a huge white bird.

Identified as Charles Watkins. a Cambridge Classics professor. he is visited by family and friends, each revealing clues to the nature of his breakdown. As the doctors try to cure him, Watkins begins a fierce battle to hold on to his magnificent inner world. as it gradually acquires a greater reality than the everyday.

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