A Hard Time to Be a Father - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582340668 ISBN 13: 9781582340661

Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, 2000

Synopsis

Fay Weldon won the Silver Pen Award for her last collection of stories, Wicked Women.

Here are nineteen sparkling new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and would-be fathers; of houses ancient and modern. Stories, in fact, to enlighten us to the true and timeless nature of the human condition, in this new age of self-knowledge.

About this title

Review:

Praise for Fay Weldon’s short stories:

‘Weldon’s stories pull no punches. There is always humour.’
Independent on Sunday

‘Bang up-to-date.’
Financial Times

‘Immaculately written, simple, stylish and swallowable whole. Her stories are so smart and sassy and multiply ironic.’
Scotsman

From the Back Cover:

"Like hearing a virtuoso perform."
Mail on Sunday

"Anti-romantic fables."
Sunday Telegraph

"Real freshness."
Time out

"Why does she do it?"
Spectator

"Humour...she just will not give up on it...no matter how dark."
Scotsman

"Stern fun...Her omniscience puts one in mind of her great realist forebears, George Eliot and Doris Lessing."
The Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1582340668
• ISBN 13: 9781582340661
• Binding: Paperback