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Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
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Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child Paperback - 2001

by Doris Lessing

At 18, Ben is in the world, but not of it. Now estranged from his family, he must find his own path in life, searching the faces of those he meets for kindness, only to find fear or hostility.


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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.

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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 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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This card had afflicted Ben with such a despair of rage that he took it from his mother, and ran out of the house.

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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.

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  • Title Ben, in the World: The Sequel to the Fifth Child
  • Author Doris Lessing
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, NY
  • Date July 24, 2001
  • ISBN 9780060934651 / 0060934654
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.5 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Homeless persons, London (England)
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • BookPage, 08/01/2001, Page 16
  • New York Times, 08/05/2001, Page 24
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