Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

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Fuller, Alexandra

Inhalt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOKFINALIST, GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK PRIZE "This is not a book you read just once, but a tale of terrible beauty to get lost in over and over."--Newsweek "By turns mischievous and openhearted, earthy and soaring . . . hair-raising, horrific, and thrilling."--The New Yorker In Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with visceral authenticity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller's endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller'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...