Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. Listen to fifth child, the by doris lessing available from rakuten kobo. Although just an infant, his face had an aged look. Tain irish mythology early irish literature scribd. Details about the fifth child, doris lessing audiobook, 2016. Partly a cautionary tale and partly just bad luck, this almost novelette is spare in the details but will give any parent pause, including myself. Doris lessing s contemporary gothic horror storycentered on the birth of a baby who seems less than humanprobes societys unwillingness to recognize its own brutality. Harriet, the protagonist of doris lessing s 1988 novel, the fifth child, has a terrible feeling about her youngest son. Start a free 30day trial today and get your first audiobook free. It describes the changes in the happy life of a married couple, harriet and david lovatt, as a consequence of the birth of ben, their fifth child. 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. It terrified other people, some compared him to a troll. Doris lessing pens a tale about a couple who, after four perfectly wellbehaved children, seemingly out of nowhere parent a loathsome child. Doris lessing the fifth child book club edition 1st printing.
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