Buy this book on-line LESSING**, DORIS: : Ben,in the World. : the sequel to THE FIFTH CHILD.FLAMINGO/HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS,2000. ISBN 0002261952.
UK,8vo HB+protected dw/dj,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2.] FINE/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,
monchrome photographic illustrated front of dw/dj, with blue and white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to
edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edges slightly aged/toned,
fore-edges similar but to a lesser degree
- but both generally clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,
sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp, stamped silver gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain grey endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-178pp [paginated]; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,author's notes, acknowledgements and 6pp blanks at the rear.
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Ben Lovatt can never fit in.To those he meets,he seems awkward - oo big,too strong,inhumanly made.He baffles and he terrifies: those who do not understand him
want him locked up.
His own mother locked him up; then,
guilty,she liberated him.But her unyielding love for him corroded their family; the fifth child broke the home into bits.And now he he is come of age,and
again finds himself bewildered and alone.
He searches in the faces of of those he meets,to see the hostility there,or the fear,or,more rarely,the kindness.
Occasionally,a gentler,less fearful person
understands his need,how hard he is trying
to fit in.Mostly,people make use of him,
and he finds himself in the south of France,in Brazil,and in the mountains of the Andes,where at last he finds out where
he has come from,who are his people.
'The Fifth Child' is one of Doris Lessing's most powerful,most haunting books - see my book ID's rja432412 and rja452313.In this sequel,Ben Lovatt is loosed on the wider world: how that world receives him,and how he fares in it,will keep the reader of this novel gripped and on tenterhooks until its dramatic finale.
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