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Amid the turbulent atmosphere of the late 1960s, Harriet and David Lovatt manage to keep their family safely detached from outside turmoil--until the birth of their fifth child, who is abnormally strong, demanding, even violent

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The married couple in this novel pull off a remarkable achievement: They purchase a three-story house with oodles of bedrooms, and, on a middle-class income, in the '70s, fill it to the brim with happy children and visiting relatives. Their holiday gatherings are sumptuous celebrations of life and togetherness. And then the fifth child arrives. He's just a child--he's not supernatural. But is he really human? This is an elegantly written tale that the New York Times called "a horror story of maternity and the nightmare of social collapse . . . a moral fable of the genre that includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and George Orwell's 1984."
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A self-satisfied couple intent on raising a happy family is shocked by the birth of an abnormal and brutal fifth child.

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  • PublisherAlfred A. Knopf
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 0394571053
  • ISBN 13 9780394571058
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages133
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