The Fifth Child - Couverture rigide

Lessing, Doris

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0224025538 ISBN 13 : 9780224025539

Editeur : Jonathan Cape, 1988

Synopsis

This novel tells the story of two people who want the same things - fidelity, love, family life and a stable home. They are out of line with the fashions of the 60s, but life seems to smile on them until Harriet's fifth pregnancy, when everything starts to go wrong...Doris Lessing is author of "The Grass is Singing", "The Golden Notebook", "Briefing for a Descent into Hell", "The Good Terrorist" and "The Sirian Experiment".

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

“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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0224025538
• ISBN 13: 9780224025539
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 133
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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