The Fifth Child

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0224025538 / ISBN 13: 9780224025539

Edité par Jonathan Cape Limited, London, 1988

A propos de cet article

First edition, first printing hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket drawing, 'Boy Reclining', by Mervyn Peake. Jacket is slightly sunned and edges are a little creased. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Fifth Child
• Éditeur: Jonathan Cape Limited, London
• Date de parution: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0224025538
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780224025539
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition, First Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Type de livre: Used
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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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".

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.