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Wicked women
- Title
- Wicked women / stories by Fay Weldon.
- Author
- Weldon, Fay.
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1997], ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PR6073.E374 W53 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 311 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Here we meet nuclear scientist Defoe Desmond, a post Cold War irrelevancy, who is ineptly drawn to a youthful, wily, husband-stealing New Age journalist; three sisters named Edwina, Thomasina, and Davida, who are appalled when their increasingly wild mother finally gives their father a male heir - two years after his death; and Paula, who keeps so still waiting to hear evidence 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 and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their detachment, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories.
- Contents
- End of the Line -- Run and Ask Daddy If He Has Any More Money -- In the Great War (II) -- Not Even a Blood Relation -- Wasted Lives -- Love Amongst the Artists -- Leda and the Swan -- Tale of Timothy Bagshott -- Valediction -- Through a Dustbin, Darkly -- A Good Sound Marriage -- Web Central -- Pains -- A Question of Timing -- Red on Black -- Knock-Knock -- Santa Claus's New Clothes -- Baked Alaska -- The Pardoner -- Heat Haze.
- ISBN
- 0871136813
- 0871137011
- LCCN
- 96037499
- OCLC
- ocm35919211
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries