Dirty Weekend

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ISBN 10: 0006475892 / ISBN 13: 9780006475897

Published by -, 1993

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Synopsis:

Bella, a young woman living alone in Brighton, is terrorized by an obscene phone-caller. The aggressor lives nearby and when he starts to harass Bella in the street, she decides she has had enough. She proceeds to murder her oppressor and then a whole series of predatory males.

From the Back Cover:

"This is the story of Bella, who woke up one morning and realised she'd had enough."

So begins 'Dirty Weekend', a tale of revenge...

"From the opening lines the repetitive, hypnotic authority of the prose takes over... As a piece of stylised thuggery – mordant humour run riot – the effect is stunning. Helen Zahavi's comic timing is perfect; she knows exactly how far to go."
MARIE CLAIRE

"The possibility of revenge described by 'Dirty Weekend' exists almost nowhere outside Zahavi's pages... Bella, a reluctant angel of deliverance, narrates the revenge fantasies of the sexually abused with a deadpan, desperately funny voice, looking and mocking where the rest of us would never dare."
NAOMI WOLF, 'New Statesman & Society'

'Dirty Weekend' is excruciatingly well-written... Helen Zahavi's taut, gripping prose implicates us in Bella's bloody triumph... It's terrifying."
ZOE FAIRBAIRNS, 'Everywoman'

"Helen Zahavi's 'Dirty Weekend' is everything that Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho' wants to be but isn't... Provocative, confrontational, disturbing, challenging, enlightening and moving..."
BLITZ

"Poor Martin Amis, poor D.M. Thomas. The game's over, boys – literary terrorism 'and' the fun on the streets... Read 'Dirty Weekend'. It's good – it may even be beautiful – and it's true."
ANDREA DWORKIN

Bibliographic Details

Title: Dirty Weekend
Publisher: -
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good