The Fifth Child Audiolibro Por Doris Lessing arte de portada

The Fifth Child

Vista previa
Prueba por $0.00
Prime logotipo Exclusivo para miembros Prime: ¿Nuevo en Audible? Obtén 2 audiolibros gratis con tu prueba.
Elige 1 audiolibro al mes de nuestra inigualable colección.
Escucha todo lo que quieras de entre miles de audiolibros, Originals y podcasts incluidos.
Accede a ofertas y descuentos exclusivos.
Premium Plus se renueva automáticamente por $14.95 al mes después de 30 días. Cancela en cualquier momento.

The Fifth Child

De: Doris Lessing
Narrado por: Sue Pitkin
Prueba por $0.00

$14.95 al mes después de 30 días. Cancela en cualquier momento.

Compra ahora por $20.00

Compra ahora por $20.00

Confirma la compra
la tarjeta con terminación
Al confirmar tu compra, aceptas las Condiciones de Uso de Audible y el Aviso de Privacidad de Amazon. Impuestos a cobrar según aplique.
Cancelar

Acerca de esta escucha

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, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside - until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.

©1988 Doris Lessing (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Recorded by arrangement with A.A. Knopf, an imprint of The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
Ficción Literaria Género Ficción Horror Psicológico Thriller y Suspenso Vida Familiar Aterrador Ficción Emocionante Suspenso
adbl_web_global_use_to_activate_T1_webcro805_stickypopup
Todas las estrellas
Más relevante  
Hard to believe it's Lessing - let alone a Nobel Prize winner! Doesn't begin to approach her previous books. The story build to a slow sub-boil and then it's like someone suddenly turns off the heat! Plus it was more like half of a book - the ending fizzled unexpectedly. Like a balloon that instead of popping - the air slowly leaked out of it. Plus again the narrator left a lot to be desired.!

Hard to believe it's Lessing!

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

This was an interesting story that shows the struggles of a family with their child unlike the others. It wasn't scary. Instead it was eye opening.

Not at all Horror

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

Doris Lessing pens a tale about a couple who, after four perfectly well-behaved children, seemingly out of nowhere parent a loathsome child. Partly a cautionary tale and partly just bad luck, this almost novelette is spare in the details but will give any parent pause, including myself.

A wonderful story about how random chance can wreak havoc

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

This book really kept me on the edge of my seat Both author and narrator were excellent. You didn't know what to make of this child...the anti Christ , sociopath, psychopath, soulless being.etc. I was hoping to know who or what is this or it. The narrator voice did not take away from the story. Well worth my time. It is thought provoking that there are "people" out there like this.

demon child

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

I had to read this book for English and parts of it were interesting. However, lots of it was kinda of boring and annoying seeing how arrogant some of the characters were. It was also a little eerie at times, yet it doesn’t feel like horror for most of it.

Such a boring and headache at times.

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

After finishing this book I have to say that I did like it. I did though however think it would have more of a "demon like quality" to it. There definitely was but I was expecting a bit more. To me the book was a great read though. I would recommend it and listened to it in one day it was very short. I do like a book that has more of a creep factor to it but although this one did have it just not as much as I was hoping for.

Demon?

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

Dark & surreal in the vein of The Stepford Wives. Perfection goes very wrong. Also a great commentary on the stories we all tell ourselves.

Great story!

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

It is hard to review this with out giving the story away. I understand why this was in the Horror Section, but it is not scary. This is a hard story to pigeon hole. It has a very sixties mood, involving a man and a woman, who are not exactly normal to begin with. One of them has rich parents who pays for their house. They decide that they want as many children as possible. The lead female has problems with all of her pregnancies, yet keeps having kids. It seems like people are always coming over and staying with them. Their life is so different from mine, it was hard to relate.

I think anyone who has had an abnormally difficult child and who has worried about their normal children because of this child, might relate. The book also takes a close look at how our society treats those who are different. I did listen to the whole thing, but it is not long. If you get it, just don't expect a horror novel.

60's, English Family Drama

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

Pretty sure this is a book about a mother unable to love her son and insisting that he must not be human. She also refers to a child with Down's as a "mongrel" repeatedly. I think we were supposed to sympathize with her and hate the boy, but...she was just an incapable parent.

Wait, that was the book?

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

I would not recommend this audio book. I feel it was poorly narrated and more than poorly written. :(

Disappointing

Se ha producido un error. Vuelve a intentarlo dentro de unos minutos.

Ver más opiniones