Praxis
Subtitle: a novel
By: Fay Weldon.
Publisher: Summit Books; Simon & Schuster
Published: 1978
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Description: The title character, Praxis Duveen, is a master of the art of survival. She weathered two unsuccessful marriages, pursued a brief but lucrative career as a prostitute, dabbled in incest, and performed a mercy killing. Praxis also enjoyed an inadvertent reign as both an apostle and victim of the women's movement. This is a novel about one woman's progress toward a reconciliation of her life with her own agency and freedom.