The Fifth Child
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 ol…
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- ISBN: 978-0-679-72182-6
- EAN: 9780679721826
- Produktnummer: 9177389
- Verlag: Random House LCC US
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 133 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.0 cm x D1.5 cm 156 g
- Gewicht: 156
Über den Autor
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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