Wicked women
Subtitle: stories
By: by Fay Weldon
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9780871136817; 9780871137012; 9780871137371
Subjects: Social life and customs; Women; Fiction
Description: Twenty madcap stories in a world peopled with therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women navigating the perils of domesticity. A social commentary by the author of Worst Fears.
Table of contents: title: Tales of wicked women.; title: End of the line --; title: Run and ask Daddy if he has any more money --; title: In the Great War (II) --; title: Not even a blood relation.; title: Tales of wicked men.; title: Wasted lives --; title: Love amongst the artists --; title: Leda and the swan.; title: Tales of wicked children.; title: Tale of Timothy Bagshott --; title: Valediction.; title: From the other side.; title: Through a dustbin, darkly --; title: A good sound marriage --; title: Web central.; title: Of love, pain and good cheer.; title: Pains --; title: A question of timing --; title: Red on black --; title: Knock-knock.; title: Going to the therapist.; title: Santa Claus's new clothes --; title: Baked Alaska --; title: The pardoner --; title: Heat haze.