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In this ambitious book of chaos and launch, short-listed for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing thinks the fantastical "inner-space" existence of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Teacher of Classics at Cambridge University, has experienced a malfunction, limited to a mental hospital as his buddies and physicians make an effort to carry him back once again to reality. But Watkins has started on a significant pyschological experience that takes him from the rotating host in the Atlantic into a damaged rock town on a warm island to an outer space trip through performing planets. As he moves in his brain through storage and the further reaches of creativity, his physicians attempt to subdue him with ever-more effective medicines in a competition for his spirit. In this provocative book, Lessing takes us on a harrowing journey in to the seldom glimpsed place of the internal brain.