Synopsis: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ﾃ?ﾛ A worthy heir to Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, Alexandra Fuller shares visceral memories of her childhood in Africa, and of her headstrong, unforgettable mother. ﾃ??This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over.ﾃ?ﾝﾃ??Newsweek ﾃ??By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling.ﾃ?ﾝﾃ??The New Yorker Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, Donﾃ??t Letﾃ??s Go to the Dogs Tonight is suffused with Fullerﾃ??s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fullerﾃ??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. From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fullerﾃ??known to friends and family as Boboﾃ??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 guerilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself at their African life and its rugged farm work with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything else. Though she loved her children, she was no hand-holder and had little tolerance for neediness. She nurtured her daughters in other ways: She taught them, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, to have strong wills and strong opinions, and to embrace life wholeheartedly, despite and because of difficult circumstances. And she instilled in Bobo, particularly, a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. Alexandra Fuller writes poignantly about a girl becoming a woman and a writer against a backdrop of unrest, not just in her country but in her home. But Donﾃ??t Letﾃ??s Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivorﾃ??s story. It is the story of one womanﾃ??s unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.Praise for Donﾃ??t Letﾃ??s Go to the Dogs Tonightﾃ??Riveting . . . [full of] humor and compassion.ﾃ?ﾝﾃ??O: The Oprah Magazine?ﾃ??The incredible story of an incredible childhood.ﾃ?ﾝﾃ??The Providence Journal
Title: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Sub Title: An African Childhood
Author: Alexandra Fuller
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Year: 2003
Number of pages: 336
ISBN: 9780375758997
Condition: Used
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