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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
Title:
Don't let's go to the dogs tonight : an African childhood
ISBN:
9780375758997
Edition:
Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003.
Physical Description:
315 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
General Note:
Includes "My Africa" and "Suggested reading" by the author.
Summary:
From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller, known to friends and family as Bobo, grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerrilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself into their African life and its rugged farmwork with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything. She taught her daughters, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, and she instilled in Bobo a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. 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.
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