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The Fifth Child by Lessing, Doris
by Lessing, Doris | PB | Good
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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- Binding
- Paperback
- Weight
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- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 0679721827
- Book Title
- Fifth Child
- Book Series
- Vintage International Ser.
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1989
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Horror, Family Life, Thrillers / Psychological, Literary
- Item Width
- 5.1 in
- Item Weight
- 5.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 144 Pages
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Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story--centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human--probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside--until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679721827
ISBN-13
9780679721826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
605583
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fifth Child
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Horror, Family Life, Thrillers / Psychological, Literary
Book Series
Vintage International Ser.
Publication Year
1989
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
144 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Width
5.1 in
Item Weight
5.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr6023.E833f54 1989
Reviews
"A hair-raising tale…as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire." Time "Terse and chilling…. A witch's brew of conflicting fears." The New York Review of Books "A horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse…. A moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley'sFrankensteinand George Orwell'sNineteen Eighty-Four." The New York Times Book Review, "A hair-raising tale…as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire." - Time "Terse and chilling…. A witch's brew of conflicting fears." - The New York Review of Books "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, "A hair-raising tale...as full of twists and shocks as any page turner could desire." -- Time "Terse and chilling.... A witch's brew of conflicting fears." -- The New York Review of Books "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
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88-040379
Dewey Decimal
823.9/14
Dewey Edition
21
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