Briefing for a DescentInto Hell(Reprint) A Psychological Thriller (Vintage International) by Doris May Lessing Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2009 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-307-39061-5, ISBN: 0-307-39061-6
"In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and doctors attempt to bring him back to reality. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous pyschological adventure that takes him from a spinning ra ..."