num_pages: 278
description: A fascinating look inside the mind of a man who is supposedly “mad.” Professor Charles Watkins of Cambridge University is a patient at a mental hospital where the doctors try with increasing drugs to bring his mind under control. But Watkins has embarked on a tremendous psychological adventure where, after spinning endlessly on a raft in the Atlantic, he lands on a tropical island inhabited by strange creatures with strange customs. Later, he is carried off on a cosmic journey into space…
language: English
title: Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
titlecomplete: Briefing for a Descent Into Hell
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, Novels, Mental Illness, Nobel Prize, Fiction, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 2178
awards: awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: Vintage