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Don't let's go to the dogs tonight
an African childhood
By Fuller, Alexandra
- ISBN
- 978-0-37550-750-2
- Publisher
- New York : Random House, c2001.
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Reviewed on July 1, 2002
Adult/High School Pining for Africa, Fuller's parents departed England in the early '70s while she was still a toddler. They knew well that their life as white farmers living in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia at the time) would be anything but glamorous. Living a crude, rural life, the author and her older sister contended with "itchy bums and worms and bites up their arms from fleas" and losing three siblings. Mum and Dad were freewheeling, free-drinking, and often careless. Yet they were made of tough stuff and there is ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
