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Darcy's Utopia (Paperback)

by Fay Weldon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: Flamingo; New edition edition (4 Dec 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006545920
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006545927
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 372,524 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'To read Fay Weldon is like drinking Champagne' Times 'A crash course in philosophy, religion, politics, idealism, with sexual passion, love and the nature of betrayal thrown in' Woman's Journal 'Prolific and provocative, Fay Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists' Time Out 'Fay Weldon provokes you to think. You'd expect no less of the social and sexual soothsayer of our literary times' Company 'Darcy's Utopia is among the most frolicsome of her novels, but it still manages to display her quiet, grave insistence that we change our ways.' Sunday Times

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A provocative view of modern society weaved into a tale of explosive love and, perhaps, even, black magic. Scandalous Eleanor Darcy, wild young wife of a world-famous economist, sketches her vision of Utopia to two journalists, Hugo Vansitart and Valarie Jones. In glorious detail, she describes an earthly paradise of peace, love and technological progress where sex is plentiful and money does not exist. Such is Eleanor's charisma that, to their own astonishment, Hugo and Valerie abandon their families and set up home together om a Holiday Inn.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a great story in her shocking style, 29 Nov 2000
By ctoader@ubisoft.ro (Bucharest, Romania) - See all my reviews
The novel contains little chapters, some of them interviews with Eleanor Darcy and each of the two journalists, Hugo and Valerie, some of them pieces of Eleanor Darcy's life story as it would appear in the novel written by Valerie and some of them the thoughts and actions of Valerie herself, who deserted her children and her very pedantic husband. It describes the reasons for which Eleanor became obsessed with Darcy and Darcy's utopia and her evolution from a sad and poor child to a leader of opinion in our faulty society.

Darcy's utopia itself is an egalitarist and closed society (in fact a group of societies) with rules which can be adjusted from time to time to conform the wishes of the members.

Fay Weldon wrote another great book on her prefered themes like human weakness, infidelity, children, feminism and sex. Alhough the utopia as described in the book has its obvious faults, I enjoyed a lot reading this story and I will definitely read other novels by Fay Weldon, who is a genius writer in my opinion.

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