Title The fifth child / Doris Lessing

Published London [England] : Paladin, 1989 London : Harper Perennial, 2007 ©1988

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
W'BOOL	820.914 L63925 A6/F 1989		AVAILABLE

Description 159 pages ; 20 cm Summary A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child Analysis Fiction in English 1945- Texts Fiction in English, 1945- - Texts Notes Previously published in paperback by Flamingo 2001 and 1993, and by Paladin 1989 Nobel Prize for Literature, winner 2007 Subject Children with disabilities -- Family relationships -- Fiction. Children -- Fiction. Cruelty -- Fiction. Families -- Fiction. Gangs -- Fiction. Lovatt, Ben (Fictitious character) Lovatt, Ben (Fictitious character) -- Fiction Parent and child -- Fiction. Rejection (Psychology) -- Fiction. SUBJECT England http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82068148 -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001562 Genre/Form Fiction. ISBN 0586089039 (paperback) 9780586089033 (paperback)

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