The Fifth Child
Doris May Lessing. Vintage Books USA, $13.95 (144pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72182-6
A smug, conservative couple's fifth child (after four model children) inspires fear and horror. ``The implications of this slim, gripping work are ominous,'' wrote PW. Lessing indicts those in authority who refuse to acknowledge responsibility for the violence inherent in mankind. (May)
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Reviewed on: 05/17/1989
Genre: Fiction
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