Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight : An African Childhood - Hardcover

Alexandra Fuller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0330490230 ISBN 13: 9780330490238

Publisher: Picador, 2002

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. An intimate memoir of growing up in Africa during the Rhodesian civil war of 1971 to 1979 describes a girl's life on farms in southern Rhodesia, Milawi, and Zambia, detailing her hardscrabble existence with an alcoholic mother, frequently absent father, and three lost siblings.

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From the Back Cover:

“This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.” —Newsweek

“By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.”—The New Yorker

“Ms. Fuller gives us . . . the Africa she knew as a girl, a place of cruel politics, violent heat and startling beauty, a land she makes vivid in all its ‘incongruous, lawless, joyful, violent, upside-down, illogical certainty.’” —The New York Times

“Vivid, insightful and sly . . . Bottom line: Out of Africa, brilliantly.”—People

From the Inside Flap:

In "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller's debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and sometimes hilarious prose, she stares down disaster and looks back with rage and love at the life of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary time.

About this edition

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330490230
• ISBN 13: 9780330490238
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1