March 11th 2003
The book is about her childhood in Africa. As she described each stage of her upbringing, I found myself thinking about what I had been doing at that same age and marveling that the two of us could possibly have occupied the same world at the same time. So glad it was a pick for my book club as I may not have thought of reading it otherwise. The foundation of the book is not its portrayal of the war, but how the Fullers are able to move forward despite the hardships and disappointments they face every day. There's a lot of beauty in this prose...even the most terrible parts of her story are beautifully rendered. After a man's family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. The girls learn to load and shoot guns to protect themselves from terrorists in this long civil war. As a kid, you have no idea your parents are racist, so it can be uncomfortable to read of this families ideas of blacks, but also deeply informing. So although it was good in some parts, it was quite disappointing. Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight is Alexandra Fuller’s coming of age memoir set in the midst of a war-torn African nation. Her parents are expats from Britain who moved in the late 60's to work as farm managers. The mum said it best: we’re all mad but I’m the only one with aI enjoyed the author's snappy style of writing and wanted to like this book, but sadly it ends there. I enjoyed the author's snappy style of writing and wanted to like this book, but sadly it ends there. It is perhaps closer to misery lit, although the tone is mostly light, and the worst episodes glossed over. Her writing is beautiful, descriptive. Alexandra Fuller's book tells the story of her family of white Zimbabwean tenant farmers in the years before and after Independence. I good read.
Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Don't Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight at Amazon.com. Lucy Sweeney Byrne. is its ability to portray many of these trials with a dark and honest humor characteristic of one who has known crippling fear and refused to let it conquer her. While giving a sense of the continent’s political shifts, she mostly focuses on her own family: the four-person circus that was Bobo (that’s her), Van (her older sister Vanessa), Dad, and Mum (an occasionally hospitalized manic-depressive alcoholic Her writing is beautiful, descriptive. They don't demand too much. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users.
Her family was so quirky and fun to know about but the sad undertones were always present. These deaths and the constant uncertainty of life play heavily into the family dynamic, especially as Fuller’s mother descends deeper into alcoholism and mental illness. Growing up in the 70's as ex-pats in a country still fighting for it's own independence. I love the family, all of them.
It's a picture of the author, Alexandra "Bobo" Fuller, as a child in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
I enjoyed this book. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight is a brutal portrayal of war-time Zimbabwe. Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African ChildhoodThis is one of my top-ten favorite books of all time. Unfortunately, tragedy constantly befalls the family. But I just never felt much of a connection to the book or to any of the characters. With David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson, Alfred Molina. The memoirs of the childhood of a white girl (Alexandra, known as Bobo), raised on African farms in the 1970s and 1980s, along with her sister, Van(essa). Yet the pictures shown around the time of the girls' marriages showed cultured young women and their parents. Mugabe: Power and Plunder in Zimbabwe Martin Meredith Public Affairs £15.99, pp243.
Don’t Let’s Go To The Dogs Tonight: An Africa Childhood by Alexandra Fuller who was born in England but was raised in Rhodesia by an “absented mind” mother, an “always on the go and work to do” father and with an “I mind my own business and you all can go to hell” older sister. But it's not a gilded, ex-pat life: her parents lose their farm in forced land distribution, after which they are itinerant farm managers, who move where the work is, often to disease-ridden and war-torn areas.
The other reason I really enjoyed this book was the sometimes startlingly candid and dispassionate voice of the narration. I read an article by a book reviewer a little while ago in which they talked about how sick they were of "growing up in fill-in-the-blank" books and wished people would be more original. There are many reviews that summarize this book, so I won’t repeat them. . Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. I've read it twice and feel another reread coming on.I almost gave this book four stars because it was very well-written and evocative.
Often very sad.
This was no Out of Africa. I love the family, all of them.
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