Wicked Women - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

3.49

322 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006550185 ISBN 13: 9780006550181

Publisher: Flamingo, 1996

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Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia.

Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he’s a victim; a blackmailer see herself as a healer; and an artist’s slave be sure she’s free.

Travel in space and time: meet Miss Jacobs, the silent psychoanalyst, who receives the confessions of saints and sinners; discover the heart of a nuclear scientist, forcibly retired, who does his hopeless best to resist the wiles of a self-seeking, talking, beautiful New Age journalist – in fact all human life is here, and still in amazingly good heart, considering.

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Review:

‘Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.’
Spectator

‘Weldon’s writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.’
Times Literary Supplement

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'Weldon's stories pull no punches. There is always humour, and (good for fortysomethings to hear) the wry and life-hardened smiles of middle age are often set in contrast to the po-faced enthusiasms and idiocies of youth.'
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

'Weldon's marvellous ear for the latest jargon makes her the writer new-age therapists might love to hate.'
NEW STATESMAN AND SOCIETY

'Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.'
SPECTATOR

'Pure Weldonian. Brimming with mischief, heavy with hidden meaning and defiantly modern, they are a parable for our times and times to come.'
IRISH INDEPENDENT

'Weldon's steely, aphrodistic prose spells death to cosy delusions, to liberal, civilised veneers.'
SCOTSMAN

'Weldon is an enthusiastic observer of social trends and the stories are bang up-to-date. What we are being offered here is irony in its purest form.'
FINANCIAL TIMES

'Weldon's writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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