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.
具體描述
讀後感
《星期日泰晤士报》认为Dorris这本书本“让人毛骨悚然，却也让人欲罢不能”。我十分赞同后一句，对于前一句却不能十足的同意。我也承认，这本书描写班的样貌和异于常人的行为时，那种平铺的，娓娓道来的描写让没有准备的读者感到恐惧，或许还有些许的厌恶。可能有的时候，也会...
評分是不是人越活越复杂？想的越来越多，原本很简单纯粹的问题，总是会摊铺来看…… 海蕊和戴维的相识有点不可思议，对待婚姻对待孩子的态度倒是契合… 他们先后拥有了四名子女， 他们有着周围人觉得过大的房子， 他们有着与四个孩子生活并不等称的收入来源，幸好，他们的父母多少...
評分 評分沒有人看這本《第五個孩子》時會有笑聲。如同它書封上寫著的，這是一本令人毛骨悚然的故事，所想必閱讀的時候，應該會是驚恐的，更別說是發出笑聲了。我不知道為什麼寫書介的人會用這「毛骨悚然」來形容它，是因為這第五個孩子「班」的怪異的行為，以及它根本不像人類的種種？...
評分一个故事的两个角度 ——读多丽丝•莱辛的《第五个孩子》和《浮世畸零人》 西门媚／文 这两本书看似是一个故事的上下两部分，但给人的心理感受却完全不同。 读《第五个孩子》的时候，完全想不到后面还有那样一个视角和结局。 《第五个孩子》讲述一对平凡的夫妇，有着普通...
用戶評價
sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分Not what I expected. Thought it would be a horror story, but it is more like a book about family, about the relationship, and education
评分Not what I expected. Thought it would be a horror story, but it is more like a book about family, about the relationship, and education
评分Time passed. It did pass.
相關圖書
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息，本站不存儲任何數據與內容，任何內容與數據均與本站無關，如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.quotespace.org All Rights Reserved. 小美書屋 版权所有