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Weldon's latest novel is about the glorious pleasure of sexuality and the havoc it can wreak when we succumb to it. It's a story about marriage and infidelity, and the fact that one occasionally requires the other for survival. When Mr. Leslie Beck reappears in the lives of four friends--three of them married, and all past paramours of Beck's--he revives the secrets and passions of the past.
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'This is Weldon at her most wicked.' - Elle
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'Full of scandal and the joy and guilt of sex.' - Oxford Mail
'Weldon struts her more robust stuff.' - Vogue
'She can tease, tantalise and scandalise better than any other writer today.' - Financial Times
'Bleak, too, and full of wisdom that goes beyond the conventional view and the received idea.' - Cosmopolitan
'Here is Weldon witty, ingenious, outrageous, absorbed in sexual currents, leaping from character to character or year to year with the sure-footedness of an Alpine chamois. Weldon has precisely captured the atmosphere of a time and a final exchange of power. Grim stuff, and Weldon doesn't pull her punches.' - Scotsman
'Everywhere is the unmistakable zippiness of her narrative style.' - Daily Telegraph
'A scathing indictment of rampant seedshedding and moral vanity. Through the voices of women Beck has seduced, Weldon joyously wields the scalpel.' - Woman's Journal
FAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original "Upstairs Downstairs, " she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include "Praxis", shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; "The Heart of the Country, " winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; "Worst Fears, " shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and "Wicked Women, " which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0140159142
- ISBN 13 9780140159141
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages222
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. " Weldon's latest novel is about the glorious pleasure of sexuality and the havoc it can wreak when we succumb to it. It's a story about marriage and infidelity, and the fact that one occasionally requires the other for survival. When Mr. Leslie Beck reappears in the lives of four friends--three of them married, and all past paramours of Beck's--he revives the secrets and passions of the past." From the Publisher: 'This is Weldon at her most wicked.' - Elle 'Full of scandal and the joy and guilt of sex.' - Oxford Mail 'Weldon struts her more robust stuff.' - Vogue 'She can tease, tantalise and scandalise better than any other writer today.' - Financial Times 'Bleak, too, and full of wisdom that goes beyond the conventional view and the received idea.' - Cosmopolitan 'Here is Weldon witty, ingenious, outrageous, absorbed in sexual currents, leaping from character to character or year to year with the sure-footedness of an Alpine chamois. Weldon has precisely captured the atmosphere of a time and a final exchange of power. Grim stuff, and Weldon doesn't pull her punches.' - Scotsman 'Everywhere is the unmistakable zippiness of her narrative style.' - Daily Telegraph 'A scathing indictment of rampant seed shedding and moral vanity. Through the voices of women Beck has seduced, Weldon joyously wields the scalpel.' - Woman's Journal. Seller Inventory # 019335
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