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Books : Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood |
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List Price: $15.00Amazon.com's Price: $10.20 You Save: $4.80 (32%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 968.9104092
EAN: 9780375758997
ISBN: 0375758992
Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: March 11, 2003
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Release Date: March 11, 2003
Sales Rank: 8654
Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Terrible book
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
I read a review of this autobiography which raised my interest. But after reading fully two-thirds of the book, I was disheartened at the racist attitude of nearly all of the significant white characters in the book: her mother, father, and even the young woman herself. It re-inforced the cruel treatment of the Black majority in then Rhodesia by the members of the White minority we met while reading it. I strongly recommend anyone ... Read More
Rating:  - Great Book!!
This is an easy read which also offers insight into life in Africa and the difficulties faced there. Very interesting and insightful!
Rating: - Engaging story
This book kept me engaged to see what "diffrent" thihg would happen next. While not great writing, it is vivid and depicts things most of us can hardly imagine.
Rating: - great book
An amazing book that brings Africa to life. It is a vivid portrait of a family and a continent in a very particular period. Deserves rereading as there is so much to it.
Rating: - Interesting Personal Account
In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller describes her childhood in Africa. Fuller's story, told in graceful prose, is brutal and touching and never overly sentimental. I enjoyed many of the stories Fuller includes in this memoir, but I found certain aspects tedious. Fuller's family moves through many different living situations in numerous countries and confronts various unstable political regimes. After awhile, these places and politics run together and became repetitive. The tedium ... Read More
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