Vintage/ The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing

Description: Vintage/ Preowned/ good condition. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing. Copyright in 1988 by Alfred A. Knopf. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages 133. In the atmosphere of England in the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt defy the " greedy and selfish' spirit of the times with their version of tradition and normalcy: a large family, all the expected pleasures of a rich and responsible home life, children growing. Harriet tending, David providing. Even as the day's events take a dark turn, an ominous surge in crime, unemployment, unrest, the Lovatts cling to their belief that an obstinately guarded contentedness will preserve them for the world outside. Until the birth of their fifth child. Harriet and David are stricken with astonishment at their new infant. Almost gruesome in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong, demanding and violent, Ben has nothing infant like about him, nothing innocent or unsullied northing normal by society's standards. Harriet and David understand immediately that he will never be accepted in their world. Harriet finds she cannot love him. David cannot bring himself to touch him. The four older children are quickly afraid of him. Family and friends who once gravitated to the Lovatts' begin to stay away. There are no rips, tears or fold over of the pages. There is a little yellowing along the edge of pages because of age. Normal wear on the dust jacket.

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