Don't let's go to the dogs tonight
Subtitle: an African childhood
By: Alexandra Fuller
Edition: Random House trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780375758997
Subjects: British Personal narratives; Girls; Childhood and youth; Biography; History
Description: From 1972 to 1990, Alexandra Fuller, known to friends and family as Bobo, grew up on several farms in southern and central Africa. Her father joined up on the side of the white government in the Rhodesian civil war and was often away fighting against the powerful black guerrilla factions. Her mother, in turn, flung herself into their African life and its rugged farmwork with the same passion and maniacal energy she brought to everything. She taught her daughters, by example, to be resilient and self-sufficient, and she instilled in Bobo a love of reading and of storytelling that proved to be her salvation. But Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is more than a survivor's story: It is the story of one woman's unbreakable bond with a continent and the people who inhabit it, a portrait lovingly realized and deeply felt.
Notes: Includes "My Africa" and "Suggested reading" by the author.