Wicked Women: Stories (Weldon, Fay) - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0871137372 ISBN 13: 9780871137371

Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing, 1999

Synopsis

Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journalist; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and Davida, who are appalled when their increasingly wild mother finally gives their father a male heir - two years after his death; and Paula, who keeps so still waiting to hear evidence of her husband's adultery that she does not notice she's giving birth. Weldon's world is peopled with therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their detachment, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity.

About this title

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

From the Back Cover:

· Love Among the Artists
· Leda and the Swan
· Valediction
· A Good Sound Marriage
· Santa Claus's New Clothes
· Baked Alaska
· The Pardoner

Seven brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where an artist's slave can be sure she's free; where everything can be explained only by lies; where to win is always to lose.

In fact, all of human life is here, and still in amazingly good heart, considering.

"Weldon writes as if she were Virginia Woolf and Roseanne Arnold joined at the hip. She is literary, well-read, totally in control, sharp as a needle and off the wall."
MIRABELLA

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Travel Publishing
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0871137372
• ISBN 13: 9780871137371
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 311