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Weldon, Fay Down Among the Women
Penguin Putnam~trade October 25, 197 0-14-003613-X / 9780140036138 Paperback Very Good
Respectable wife, unmarried mother, divorcee, femme fatale - these are role s that society demands from Scarlet, Jocelyn, Helen, Susan and Audrey. But things do not slot neatly into pigeon holes, and as the women negotiate aro und the events in their lives, they discover their real selves.
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Weldon, Fay Praxis
Trafalgar Square December 1, 199 0-340-59580-9 / 9780340595800 Paperback Very Good
An astonishingly vivid and wickedly funny portrait of a woman and her times , Praxis is a story told from two viewpoints - Praxis as a young girl and P raxis as an old woman. At age five, Praxis Duveen is "the pretty one," her sister, Hypatia, "the artistic one, and very sensitive;" their mother, Lucy , "clearly valued sensitivity above prettiness." While Lucy fights to prote ct her place in the heart of her children's father - not her husband - and in the eyes of a society not of her choosing, Hypatia collects awards in sc hool and Praxis propels herself into life and love. Looking back as an old woman, Praxis cannot forgive her mother or cherish her memories: "I, Praxis Duveen, being old and scarcely in my right mind, now bequeath you my memor ies. They may help you: they certainly do nothing to sustain me, let alone assist my bones to clamber out of the bath." Neither the young or the old P raxis are especially likeable, and both are subject to wild errors in judgm ent. Fay Weldon pulls no punches in her pointed and witty observations of B ritish middle-class values and behavior as she creates a discomfortingly be lievable picture of an ordinary woman in a society that does not value wome n.
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Weldon, Fay Puffball
Sceptre December 1, 198 0-340-26662-7 / 9780340266625 Paperback Very Good
One of four books by Fay Weldon to be republished with new covers. The othe r books are "Remember Me", "The Shrapnel Academy" and "Polaris and Other St ories".
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Weldon, Fay The Cloning of Joanna May
HarperCollins Canada, Limite 1990 0-00-617845-6 / 9780006178453 Paperback Near Fine
A novel about split personality, about the components of the self and genet ic engineering. It tells the fate of Joanna May, who at the age of 60 disco vers that she has been cloned and there are in fact four other versions of herself in existence.
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Weldon, Fay The Heart of the Country
Knopf Publishing Group September 1992 0-09-914771-8 / 9780099147718 Paperback Very Good+
The strikingly inventive British author ( The Shrapnel Academy , The Life a nd Loves of a She-Devil ) delivers another biting satire on men's inhumanit y to women. Weldon sets the scene in a small town where upper-class Natalie is left suddenly penniless after her husband scarpers with his secretary. Sonia, a woman similarly deserted but accustomed to coping with draconian w elfare officials, gives Natalie and her children shelter as well as pricele ss advice. As local males lust for Natalie's body (and the posh house they assume will come with it), Sonia plans a twist on the annual town carnival, a demonstration hinted at throughout the narrative, and occuring at the no vel's horrifying conclusion. This strong story about damaged lives is memor able as well for the lusty humor that makes all Weldon's books irresistible .
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Weldon, Fay The Life and Loves of a She-devil (Coronet Books)
Coronet Books 1 Oct 1986 0-340-36379-7 / 9780340363799 Paperback Very Good
A scathing satire of an image-conscious society, Fay Weldon’s The Life and Loves of a She-Devil is the story of Ruth, an graceless, unattractive woman . Trapped in a loveless marriage with a cruelly indifferent, philandering h usband named Bobbo, Ruth finds herself sinking under the weight of crushed expectations and neglect. But rather than simply accept her lot in life, Ru th decides to embrace the feelings of evil that are welling inside of her a nd transform herself into an avenging she-devil. The result is an often hil arious black comedy with a powerful message about love and superficiality.
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Weldon, Fay The Spa Decameron
Quercus Publishing Plc March 5, 2008 1-84724-334-7 / 9781847243348 Paperback Very Good+
A crisp clean softcover, no markings throughout: Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginning to their lives. The Ladies lounge around in the Jacuzzi, drinking champagne and eating chocolate telling each other the stories of their lives. Starting with the Trophy wife's tale: her spell in a Greek prison has left her in serious need of a makeover; the Brain Surgeon's tale: of twins and mistaken identity; the Judge's tale: of the sex change which allowed him to judge the pleasures of the bedchamber from both male and female perspectives. The manicurist, the public speaker, the journalist, the company director, the ex vicar's wife, the screenwriter, all share their stories, ending with the stepmother's tale, a reversal of Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim...Sparkling, witty, always compassionate and occasionally libidinous, Fay Weldon's new novel recalls Boccaccio's late medieval masterwork, "The Decameron". Boccaccio dedicated his book to the ladies of his time, who were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil of discretion, while men were free to indulge theirs.
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Weldon, Fay WICKED WOMEN
Flamingo 2 Dec 1996 0-00-655072-X / 9780006550723 Paperback Very Good
Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post-Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journali st; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and Davida, who are appalled whe n their increasingly wild mother finally gives their father a male heir - t wo years after his death; and Paul, who keeps so still waiting to hear evid ence 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 a nd family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their detachm ent, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity.
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450.00 JPY
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