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Wicked Women
In Wicked Women, a 1997 New York Times Notable Book of Year and her most celebrated collection of stories ever, critically acclaimed Fay Weldon brings her bracing wit to bear on men, love, therapy, marriage, parenting, and the myriad self-deceptions and half-truths that oil the wheels of "civilized behavior".
In these twenty madcap tales we enter Fay Weldon's worl
...morePaperback, 320 pages
Published
January 8th 1999
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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As usual with Weldon, there is something rather uncomfortable about each of these tales that makes their truth stick. What is surprising is that in certain respects some of them seem dated - probably because of attention to detail that turns out to be of its time: mention of shoulder pads and a recession that now seems as nothing, for example.
Would like to go back to these one day if I happened across another copy.
Would like to go back to these one day if I happened across another copy.
Wicked women, wicked men and wicked children people these short stories. Fay Weldon seems to have rather a low opinion of family life as there is hardly a happy relationship to be seen in these pages.
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damn. I lost my copy, I want to read it again. I remember it as being sharp, funny, and refreshing.
i just love Fay Weldon's sense of humor...
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Fay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.
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“The language of distinction ceases to be available; is no longer available. We must search CD Rom for meanings which once were clear, but now are obscure. The words are too big for the narrow column of the contemporary newspaper. We are all one-syllable people now, two at most. So we mumble and stumble into our futures. But it is still our task and our reward to scavenge through the universe , picking up the detritus of lost concepts, dusting them down, making them shine. Latin was the best polishing cloth of all, but we threw it away.”
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