Ben, In the World
The Sequel to the Fifth Child
By Doris Lessing
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780060934651, 192pp.)
Publication Date: July 6, 2001
Categories: Literary, Psychological
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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.
Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, is one of the most celebrated and distinguished writers of our time. She lives in north London.
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