# The Fifth Child

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- Book: [The Fifth Child](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing/the-fifth-child) ([The Fifth Child.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing/the-fifth-child.md))
- Authors: [Doris Lessing](https://www.bookquiver.com/doris-lessing)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-182-6
- Pages: 144
- Published: 1989-05-14
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality. Harriet and David Lovatt,...