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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Fuller Alexandra Fuller
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Fuller Alexandra Fuller
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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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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
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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Fuller, known to friends and family as Bobo, grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. But "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" is more than a survivor's story: It is the story of one woman's unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt. A Book Sense Selection. Photos.
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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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