false 1868343 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 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>]]> 1868343 6 1869140 2007 The Spa total:67|5:4|4:7|3:22|2:17|1:17| 67 165 105 23 50416 3.44 1538 202 73095032 862538 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>]]> 2007 3 0 false Mon Oct 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 09:03:14 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 10:17:18 -0700 2009  
In the book a writer is going though ...more...]]> 28095642 1065703 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 3 0 false Sun Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 14:46:32 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 26 14:22:09 -0700 2008
The book reads like Chaucer's Tales. With no real plot, it's a conglomeration of descriptions of and stories about characters who find themselves thrown toget...more...]]> 23030077 600336 1089464 1847240925 9781847240927 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296m/1089464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296s/1089464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1089464.The_Spa_Decameron 2.55 11
The War Correspondent's alter ego as fretful mistress

The Queen of Public Speaking on the international lecture-circuit, with her loneliness and her heart complaint

The Trophy Wife: fresh from a spell in a Greek prison, her need for a makeover desperate

The Brain Surgeon's tale - of twins and mistaken identity

The Hollywod Screenwriteer who thinks her characters have written her

The Judge: she was once a man. Only he/she knows... which gender takes most pleasure in sex?

The Conspiracy Theorist whose worst fears are coming true

The Virgin Manicurist from Liverpool - why does she need a bodyguard?

And the cautionary tale of the Stepmother - a reversal of Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim... and in all of them is a little of all of us.

Witty, compassionate and casually libidinous, Fay Weldon's sparkling new novel, in its ten days of storytelling, nods back to the Decameron of Boccaccio - who dedicated his book to the ladies of his time. They were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil of discretion, while men stayed free to indulge theirs. Weldon's women, on the other hand, are women of today: no veil of discretion for them...]]> 2007 3 0 false Fri May 30 10:34:24 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 01:08:15 -0700 2008 Fri May 30 10:34:24 -0700 2008 One of the bits of blurb on the back called it a 'witty updating of the decameron', so I looked that up on wikipedia, and yes, indeed, it is a witty updating of the decam...more...]]> 11121892 128298 1089464 1847240925 9781847240927 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296m/1089464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296s/1089464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1089464.The_Spa_Decameron 2.46 67
The War Correspondent's alter ego as fretful mistress

The Queen of Public Speaking on the international lecture-circuit, with her loneliness and her heart complaint

The Trophy Wife: fresh from a spell in a Greek prison, her need for a makeover desperate

The Brain Surgeon's tale - of twins and mistaken identity

The Hollywod Screenwriteer who thinks her characters have written her

The Judge: she was once a man. Only he/she knows... which gender takes most pleasure in sex?

The Conspiracy Theorist whose worst fears are coming true

The Virgin Manicurist from Liverpool - why does she need a bodyguard?

And the cautionary tale of the Stepmother - a reversal of Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim... and in all of them is a little of all of us.

Witty, compassionate and casually libidinous, Fay Weldon's sparkling new novel, in its ten days of storytelling, nods back to the Decameron of Boccaccio - who dedicated his book to the ladies of his time. They were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil of discretion, while men stayed free to indulge theirs. Weldon's women, on the other hand, are women of today: no veil of discretion for them...]]> 2007 3 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 27 19:25:48 -0800 2007 Sun Jan 13 14:27:22 -0800 2008 The Decameron, written by Giovanni Boccaccio, in about 1350 is a collection of novellas, arranged as a story about a group of women and men escaping the plague in Florence, and staying in the countryside, each telling stories for the others' amusement. Weldon's Spa Decameron tells of a group of wom...more...]]> 31499349 1200568 1089464 1847240925 9781847240927 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296m/1089464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296s/1089464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1089464.The_Spa_Decameron 2.46 67
The War Correspondent's alter ego as fretful mistress

The Queen of Public Speaking on the international lecture-circuit, with her loneliness and her heart complaint

The Trophy Wife: fresh from a spell in a Greek prison, her need for a makeover desperate

The Brain Surgeon's tale - of twins and mistaken identity

The Hollywod Screenwriteer who thinks her characters have written her

The Judge: she was once a man. Only he/she knows... which gender takes most pleasure in sex?

The Conspiracy Theorist whose worst fears are coming true

The Virgin Manicurist from Liverpool - why does she need a bodyguard?

And the cautionary tale of the Stepmother - a reversal of Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim... and in all of them is a little of all of us.

Witty, compassionate and casually libidinous, Fay Weldon's sparkling new novel, in its ten days of storytelling, nods back to the Decameron of Boccaccio - who dedicated his book to the ladies of his time. They were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil of discretion, while men stayed free to indulge theirs. Weldon's women, on the other hand, are women of today: no veil of discretion for them...]]> 2007 1 0 false Sun Nov 23 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Aug 28 22:17:16 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 24 16:53:13 -0800 2008 more...]]> 80947768 3041390 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 3 0 false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Dec 14 05:30:23 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 15 03:53:44 -0800 2009 57046505 1471637 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Sat May 23 06:36:27 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 06:39:21 -0700 2009 45058915 660101 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 5 0 false Fri Feb 13 07:11:21 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 12:47:45 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 07:11:21 -0800 2009
So far so good....]]> 44741477 1819510 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 06:41:16 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 09:43:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 47697272 151693 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 3 0 false Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 10:40:27 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 10:44:32 -0800 2009 47466423 1860134 1089464 1847240925 9781847240927 4 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296m/1089464.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180896296s/1089464.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1089464.The_Spa_Decameron 2.46 67
The War Correspondent's alter ego as fretful mistress

The Queen of Public Speaking on the international lecture-circuit, with her loneliness and her heart complaint

The Trophy Wife: fresh from a spell in a Greek prison, her need for a makeover desperate

The Brain Surgeon's tale - of twins and mistaken identity

The Hollywod Screenwriteer who thinks her characters have written her

The Judge: she was once a man. Only he/she knows... which gender takes most pleasure in sex?

The Conspiracy Theorist whose worst fears are coming true

The Virgin Manicurist from Liverpool - why does she need a bodyguard?

And the cautionary tale of the Stepmother - a reversal of Cinderella's fate, with the stepmother as victim... and in all of them is a little of all of us.

Witty, compassionate and casually libidinous, Fay Weldon's sparkling new novel, in its ten days of storytelling, nods back to the Decameron of Boccaccio - who dedicated his book to the ladies of his time. They were forced to hide their amorous passions under a veil of discretion, while men stayed free to indulge theirs. Weldon's women, on the other hand, are women of today: no veil of discretion for them...]]> 2007 0 0 false Wed Feb 25 04:05:23 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 18:19:14 -0800 2009 18688075 125666 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 2 0 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 11:11:58 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 02 14:04:49 -0700 2008 more...]]> 58272557 1947250 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Thu Jun 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 06:02:31 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 06:56:22 -0700 2009 17968100 296364 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 2 0 false Sun Apr 06 08:53:17 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 17 16:12:09 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 08:52:34 -0700 2008 20289198 6463 2213029 1847243347 9781847243348 2 http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213029.The_Spa_Decameron 0.0 0 2007 0 0 false Wed Apr 16 07:52:35 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 16 07:53:25 -0700 2008 Tales from the Reading Room. What a bizarre concept! We'll see if it works better than Jane Smiley's TEN DAYS IN THE HILLS, which I could not get into at all.]]> 22613882 1155704 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 08:39:37 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 08:42:28 -0700 2008 21375641 961391 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 2 0 false Wed Apr 30 22:44:18 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 22:48:05 -0700 2008 luxury spa break. Spa treatment has been my passion.]]> 29347390 973111 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 2 0 false Mon Aug 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 15:17:04 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 05 15:17:59 -0700 2008 40404753 1285133 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Tue Mar 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Dec 18 14:48:34 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 30 08:06:14 -0700 2009 32230249 1348309 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 2.46 67 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>]]> 2007 1 0 false Sun Sep 07 00:22:23 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 07 00:22:58 -0700 2008 8 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1868343