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Books: The Fifth Child (Vintage International) by Doris May Lessing Click Image For More Info Click HERE for ... Prices (new/used) Availability Additional Images Similar Links More Reviews Additional Information Paperback: 133 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.43 x 7.98 x 5.16 Publisher: Vintage Books; Reprint edition (May 1989) In-Print Editions: Library Binding , Audio Cassette (Abridged) Customers who bought this book also bought: The Summer Before the Dark by Doris May Lessing (Paperback) The Sweetest Dream by Doris May Lessing (Paperback) The Grass Is Singing by Doris May Lessing (Paperback) The Golden Notebook (Perennial Classics) by Doris May Lessing (Introduction) (Paperback) Tentative Pregnancy: How Amniocentesis Changes the Experience of Motherhood by Barbara Katz Rothman (Paperback) Review Amazon.com The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And then the fifth child arrives. He's just a child--he's not supernatural. But is he really human? This is an elegantly written tale that the New York Times called "a horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse . . . a moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Orwell's 1984." More Reviews