New York: Knopf, 1988. SIGNED by the author on the half title. A novel of a family falling apart because of an enormously difficult child, played out against the background of a society unable to deal with its own brutal side. Very good+ (faint foxing, mostly on rough-cut side page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket.. Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

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Doris Lessing was born of British parents in Persia, in 1919, and moved with her family to Southern Rhodesia when she was five years old. She went to England in 1949 and has lived there ever since. She is the author of more than thirty books—novels, stories, reportage, poems, and plays. In 2007, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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book dealer: Barbara Bilson Books (US)
Bookseller’s Inventory #: 001628
Title: THE FIFTH CHILD
Author: Lessing, Doris
Format/binding: Hardcover
Book condition: second hand
Edition: 1st American edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0394571053
ISBN 13: 9780394571058
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: Fiction
Bookseller catalogs: FICTION / General;

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THE FIFTH CHILD

THE FIFTH CHILD