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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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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...
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight (An African Childhood) (Reprint) (Paperback)
Description Raised in Rhodesia during the Rhodesian War (1971-1979), this memoirist expresses the violence of African politics and the African landscape from her perspective as a white citizen born in England. Insects, landmines, leopards, and terrorists imprint this coming-of-age story. A New York Times Notable Book of 2002.
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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...
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This digital document is an article from Queen's Quarterly, published by Queen's Quarterly on March 22, 2002. The length of the article is 2356 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: Africa and her prodigies.(Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood)(The Shadow of the Sun) Author...
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By Alexandra Fuller Quick Links About the Book Review quote Biographical note Excerpt from bookBook Details (Top) Format Paperback Pages 336 Publisher Random House Publishing Group Publication Date March 1, 2003 ISBN 9780375758997 (0375758992) Category Biography & Autobiography : General History : Africa: General About the Book (Top) 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...
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An African childhood is remembered with candor and sensitivity by a young woman born in England, but raised on a farm in Rhodesia during the civil war of the 1970s. This diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place manages to find laughter. "A place of cruel politics, violent heat and startling beauty, a land she makes vivid in all its incongruous, lawless, joyful, upside-down, illogical certainty."The New York Times
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