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Ben, in the World

By Doris Lessing

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| Paperback | 9780753163818

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Book Description

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 peContinue

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Growing pains

Ben, In the World Doris Lessing Flamingo, £16.99, 178pp Buy it at BOL In 1988 Doris Lessing surprised a readership already accustomed to her restless shifts in form and tone with her short, brutal tale The Fifth Child. Defying easy categorisation, it ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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