Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Seller
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Silverdale, Pennsylvania, United States
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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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- Bookseller
- Mainly Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 052492
- Title
- Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition; 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394421981
- ISBN 13
- 9780394421988
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1971
- Keywords
- 0394421981
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Fiction;
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