- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; First Edition edition (4 Dec 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0002239213
- ISBN-13: 978-0002239219
- Product Dimensions: 18.5 x 12.7 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,961,452 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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‘Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.’
Spectator
‘Weldon’s writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.’
Times Literary Supplement
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Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia.
Brilliant stories from the hyper-real world of Weldonia, where self-deception rules; where a bully can believe he’s a victim; a blackmailer see herself as a healer; and an artist’s slave be sure she’s free.
Travel in space and time: meet Miss Jacobs, the silent psychoanalyst, who receives the confessions of saints and sinners; discover the heart of a nuclear scientist, forcibly retired, who does his hopeless best to resist the wiles of a self-seeking, talking, beautiful New Age journalist – in fact all human life is here, and still in amazingly good heart, considering.
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By Angel Silver "Angel Silver" (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wicked Women (Paperback)
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY: Weldon's stories pull no punches. There is always
humour, and (good for forty-somethings to hear) the wry and life-hardened smiles of middle age are often set in contrast to the po-faced enthusiasms and idiocies of youth.' NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY `Weldon's marvellous ear for the latest jargon makes her the writer new-age therapists might love to hate.' SPECTATOR: Sparkling, sharply observing, insights delivered with a light touch that puts us in a good mood, however dark the comedy.' IRISH INDEPENDENT: Pure Weldonian. Brimming with mischief, heavy with hidden meaning and defiantly modern, they are a parable for our times and times to come.' SCOTSMAN: Weldon's steely, aphoristic prose spells death to cosy delusions, to liberal, civilised veneers.' FINANCIAL TIMES: `Weldon is an enthusiastic observer of social trends and the stories are bang up-to-date. What we are being offered here is irony in its purest form.' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: `Weldon's writing is seductively readable, her magic realism is never pretentious; it is understated and convincing.'
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