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| Don't Let's Go to Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood | 
 enlarge | Author: Alexandra Fuller
Publisher: Picador
Category: Book
Buy Used: $7.31
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1763424
Media: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0330412302
EAN: 9780330412308
ASIN: 0330412302
Publication Date: January 3, 2003
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Product Description
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart numbers from sunbleached rocks. This memoir is about living through a civil war; it is about losing children and losing that war, and realizing that the side you have been fighting for may well be the "wrong" one.
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| Customer Reviews:
 fascinating, though a strong tone some might not like January 14, 2005
fuller's memoir is a tough but beautiful look at the hard-scrabble life of growing up as a white colonial daughter-of-an-alcoholic-mother in war-torn african states. i wouldn't recommend this book to my grandmother or great aunt - the tone is certainly a bit in-your-face with its frequent references to alcoholism, lost babies, and constant injuries. nonetheless fuller seems simply honest, steadfastly direct rather than delicate, and while walking a tiptoe line of creating shock in the reader, it never solidly dives over the line into gratuitous violence, admirably keeping some distance as the matter-of-fact observations of a child. i found it very well-written, and very hard to put down. if the tone sounds too strong for you, try the older "flame trees of thika" series, which also make fascinating comparisons to fuller in terms of both africa and the authors modern approach.
 An uncomfortable read January 14, 2005
This is a very personal account of a girl growing up in Africa.
Feels a lot like reading someone's diary, with the family's losses, grief, and subsequent functional breakdown exposed for all to see.
It's written truthfully, maybe too much so.
I was very absorbed by this book, but I'm not sure I can say I actually enjoyed it.
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