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THE FIFTH CHILD
by Lessing, Doris
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394571053
- ISBN 13
- 9780394571058
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. In the unconstrained atmosphere of England in the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt, an upper-middle-class couple, face a frightening vicissitude. As the days' events take a dark and ugly turn nearing apocalyptic intensity, the Lovatts' guarded contentedness and view of the world as a benign place are forever shattered by the violent birth of their fifth child: Ben, monstrous in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, demanding, brutal. "A horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse. A moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley¿s Frankenstein and George Orwell¿s Nineteen Eighty-Four."---The New York Times Book Review
Synopsis
Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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- Bookseller
- BIAbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001923
- Title
- THE FIFTH CHILD
- Author
- Lessing, Doris
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394571053
- ISBN 13
- 9780394571058
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1988
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