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Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset.
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<p>‘Compulsive…a mordant wit and staccato stylishness’. Daily Mail</p>
A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.
‘Watching Me, Watching You’ was Fay Weldon’s first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, ‘Alopecia’, can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in ‘Threnody’, a women’s commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine.
Fay Weldon’s observation is always wonderfully acute and ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity.
A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer.
• Fay Weldon’s profile is at the highest it has been for years. The publication of her autobiography, AUTO DA FAY, was accompanied by high profile reviews and interviews in every leading newspaper, a South Bank Show devoted to her, and a Radio 4 Book of the Week slot.
• Part of an exciting reissue programme to make the iconic early works of this iconic author available to a new generation of readers. They will look stunning, accessible and contemporary.
• Always controversial, these early novels remain as relevant and as shocking as when first published.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include ‘The Life and Loves of a She-Devil’, ‘Puffball’, ‘Big Women’ and ‘Rhode Island Blues’. She has also published her autobiography ‘Auto da Fay’. Her most recent novel was the critically acclaimed ‘She May Not Leave’. She lives in Dorset.