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Doris Lessing • 72 Items / 41 Books, 28 Articles, 2 Reviews, 1 Poem
The Fifth Child (1988)
by Doris Lessing
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Published Reviews
  1. In Print
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    Foul Issues: Doris Lessing's Lessons of Unnatural Nurture (Review)
    Judith Kegan Gardiner
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    In These Times, April 27, 1988, p. 19
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    Flashes of Brilliance (Review)
    Nicci Gerrard
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    Marxism Today, May 1988, p. 51
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    Family-Planning at First Sight (Review)
    Jeffrey Giles
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    National Review, June 10, 1988, p. 51
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    Alien (Review)
    D.A.N. Jones
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    The New York Review of Books, June 30, 1988, pp. 30-31
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    Unhappily Ever After (2 Reviews)
    Ann Hulbert
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    2. Out of the Whirlpool by Alan Sillitoe
    The New Republic, May 16, 1988, pp. 39-42
  6. Books
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    New Directions (2 Reviews)
    William Phillips
    The Immortal Bartfuss, by Aron Appelfeld
    1. The Immortal Bartfuss by Aron Appelfeld
    2. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    The Partisan Review, Winter 1989, pp. 143-146
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    Briefly Noted (3 Reviews)
    The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
    1. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    2. Much Depends on Dinner by Margaret Visser
    3. Elvis Presley Boulevard by Mark Winegardner
    The New Yorker, April 11, 1988, pp. 130-134
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    Fiction Chronicle (6 Reviews)
    Robert Garis
    The Children of the Arbat, by Anatoli Rybakov
    1. The Children of the Arbat by Anatoli Rybakov
    2. Curfew by Jose Donoso
    3. The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
    4. The Ark Sakura by Kobo Abe
    5. Quinn's Book by William J. Kennedy
    6. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    The Hudson Review, Winter 1989, pp. 752-761