This page contains enriched content visible when JavaScript is enabled.
My Account
Library Home
Your session will expire automatically in
0
seconds.
Continue session
End session now
Request It
Save to My Lists
Export
Return to Browse
SearchType
Keyword
Title
Author (Last name first)
Subject
ISBN/ISSN
Call Number
Unit Code
Libraries Australia No.
Library of Congress No.
Search
Search Scope
Entire Collection
Print Books
E-books
All books
E-journals
All journals
Databases
All e-resources
Streaming Video
DVDs
Curriculum Resources
Deakin Theses
Special Collections
Melbourne Burwood
Warrnambool
Geelong Waterfront
Geelong Waurn Ponds
Limit search to available items
Record 2 of 2
Previous Record
Next Record
  Permalink    
Author
Lessing, Doris, 1919-2013.
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)
Other Titles
5th child
  Permalink