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Ben, in the World : The Sequel to the Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

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Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength . Ben''s half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction be... Read more

Far from resting on her laurels, Lessing goes from strength to strength . Ben''s half-human ignorance, paranoia, and rage are magnificently imagined and vividly present on every page. The condition of the outsider has hardly ever before in fiction been portrayed with such raw power and righteous anger . Few, if any, living writers can have explored so many forbidding fictional worlds with such passion and conviction. — Kirkus Reviews

The poignant and tragic sequel to Doris Lessing''s bestselling novel, THE FIFTH CHILD.

At eighteen, Ben is in the world, but not of it. He is too large, too awkward, too inhumanly made. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life. From London and the south of France to Brazil and the mountains of the Andes. Ben is tossed about in a tumultuous search for his people, a reason for his being. How the world receives him, and, he fares in it will horrify and captivate until the novel''s dramatic finale.

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File size8x5.3x0.5inches
Print pages192
PublisherHarper Perennial
Publication date July 1, 2001
ISBN9780060934651
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Doris Lessing
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Doris May Lessing CH OMG (22 Oct 1919 – 17 Nov 2013) was a British- Rhodesian novelist. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing (1950), the sequence of five novels collectively called Children of Vi...

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