false 50416 6 4 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Weldon]]> female Alvechurch 1931/09/22 135048 0340589353 9780340589359 45 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052857m/135048.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052857s/135048.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135048.Life_and_Loves_of_a_She_Devil 3.71 359
This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:
Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ". . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, "It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another."
Or Carol E. Rinzler, who wrote on The Washington Post Book World's front page, ". . . what makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes SHE-DEVIL as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece."]]> 50416 3.44 1537 202 1983 135046 0786706880 9780786706884 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052816m/135046.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052816s/135046.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135046.Letters_to_Alice_on_First_Reading_Jane_Austen 3.68 92 50416 3.44 1537 202 1985 647691 0670820989 9780670820986 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176730545m/647691.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176730545s/647691.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647691.The_Hearts_and_Lives_of_Men 3.74 58 50416 3.44 1537 202 1987 135050 0802143016 9780802143013 14 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052898m/135050.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052898s/135050.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135050.She_May_Not_Leave 2.70 74 50416 3.44 1537 202 2005 135049 0871136821 9780871136824 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052877m/135049.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172052877s/135049.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/135049.Worst_Fears 3.32 57 K. "]]> 50416 3.44 1537 202 1996 930014 0340599170 9780340599174 0 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179545111m/930014.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179545111s/930014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/930014.Puffball 3.63 49 50416 3.44 1537 202 1980 619825 0897331168 9780897331166 7 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176394817m/619825.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176394817s/619825.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619825.Down_Among_the_Women 3.84 44 50416 3.44 1537 202 1971 619860 0140128514 9780140128512 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176394927m/619860.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1176394927s/619860.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/619860.The_Cloning_of_Joanna_May 3.27 51 50416 3.44 1537 202 1989 481390 0340595809 9780340595800 5 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175116729m/481390.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175116729s/481390.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/481390.Praxis 3.49 43 50416 3.44 1537 202 1978 1868343 080211864X 9780802118646 17 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1868343.The_Spa 2.44 55 The Spa, Weldon offers a glimpse of the despairs and dalliances of a set of high-powered women who have burned paths through—and sometimes been burned by—their worlds and the men in them. It is the week between Christmas and New Year’s and ten high-achieving ladies are gathered at the expensive Castle Spa. They lounge in the Jacuzzi, sipping champagne, and telling each other the story of their lives, starting with the trophy wife’s tale of her spell in a Greek prison; the brain surgeon’s tale of twins and mistaken identity; the judge’s tale of a sex change that allowed him to experience pleasures from both male and female perspectives. The manicurist, the public speaker, the journalist, the company director, the ex-vicar’s wife, and the screenwriter all share their stories, ending with the stepmother’s tale, a reversal of Cinderella’s fate, with the stepmother as the victim. Sparkling, witty, always sharp-tongued, and occasionally libidinous, The Spa is a darkly funny sketch of a group of women who, despite prejudice, imprisonment, domestic catastrophes, and romantic debacles, have risen to the top of their respective worlds.</div>]]> 50416 3.44 1537 202 2007