Fay Weldon

Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide (eBook, ePUB)

A Collection of Short Stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A wonderful collection on topical themes from the controversial 'product-placement' author of The Bulgari Connection.

A superb new collection of stories: shrewd, sharp, insightful, with a cheerfully dark view of the world.

The wronged wife remains a lingering presence even after the mistress has moved in to her home. Oriole, an enormously successful businesswoman married to the ineffectual Hugh, begins to re-evaluate her life, when her best crockery keeps mysteriously flying through the air. A sculptor finds love while protecting a Roman graveyard from property developers. A Christmas gathering turns murderous for one unhappy guest. A travel writer watches, horrified, as her father runs of with her best friend, but is soon planning revenge.

The entire collection is shot through with Weldon's trademark mischievous deceitfulness, her hidden meanings and agendas. Rich, mad, greedy, deceitful, vulnerable her characters may be, but the stories maintain a defiantly optimistic air and sparkle with the irrepressible wit with which Weldon writes about the lives of modern men and women.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007394630
• Artikelnr.: 39955608

Autorenporträt

Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand. She took degrees in Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and after a decade of odd jobs and hard times began writing fiction. She is now well known as novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist.