The Fifth Child
by:
Doris Lessing (author)
The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life...
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The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And then the fifth child arrives. He's just a child--he's not
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394571058 (0394571053)
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
Pages no: 151
Edition language: English
Historia niesamowicie mnie wciągnęła. Kobieta jest zmuszona wybierać między dziećmi. Sama zastanawiam się jak bym postąpiła w podobnej sytuacji. Bohaterowie powieści Harriet i David Lovattowie są idealną parą. Po ślubie kupują ogromny dom i chcą mieć liczną rodzinę - przynajmniej ośmioro dzieci. Wb...
Apparently I am always in the mood to read this in January. In any case, this is a repost of the review I wrote a while ago for both this and it's sequel, although it's only posted on the sequel (Ben, In the World). I read these books many times, most recently a couple of years ago, but I've never...
I reread this the day Doris Lessing died. It's very short, and every sentence packs a heady concentration of power. This is the novel that introduced me to Lessing. I was lucky enough to be working in a bookstore when it was released; I read a review and immediately used my employee's discount to bu...
brb ordering a diy tubal ligation kit and never ever having any children.
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