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1912 |
![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: Head Of Zeus Export € 15,30
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2011 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: E/O Nel cuore della notte Frances sente bussare alla porta. Sono i funzionari del nuovo governo, venuti a confiscare le sue proprietà. Un tempo scrittrice di grande successo, ricca e famosa, nel 2013 Frances si ritrova povera, sola e vecchia. Confinata nella casa al numero 3 di Chalcot Crescent, per fuggire può soltanto rinchiudersi nella propria fantasia, in quell'arte dello scrivere che le ha dato tutto quello che ora vogliono toglierle. E così ci regala un affresco storico inframmezzato da cronache quotidiane sulle vicende della sua numerosa e strampalata famiglia, una narrazione che copre con agile e ironica disinvoltura cinquant'anni di eventi fondamentali come il crollo del comunismo, la morte del capitalismo e la nascita di un nuovo governo basato su una tirannia morbida e mediatizzata, senza però tralasciare i siparietti con il nipote tossico e rivoluzionario, i tanti amori di una gioventù in nome del sesso libero, l'astio di una figlia veterofemminista e le tribolazioni dell'altra figlia sposata a un pezzo grosso della politica nazionale. € 18,00
Scontato: € 17,10
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1910 |
![]() ![]() Author: Milton John, Woods Susanne (INT), Weldon Fay (AFT), Ricks Christopher (EDT) Publisher: Signet Classic These controversial epic poems demonstrate Milton's genius for fusing sense and sound, classicism and innovation, narrative and drama in profound explorations of the moral problems of God's justice-and what it truly means to be human. € 7,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: Corvus € 10,20
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2009 |
![]() ![]() Author: Bunyan John, Lundin Roger (INT), Weldon Fay (AFT) Publisher: Signet Classic It is a masterpiece of religious allegory transformed into intense drama, its style unsurpassed, its characters superbly individualized, indelibly alive, and as memorable as the landmarks on Christian's perilous journey toward salvation. € 7,10
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![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: La Tartaruga Richard e Liffey, giovani e felici sposi londinesi, durante una gita nel Somerset si imbattono in un delizioso cottage dall'aria romantica, coperto di rose rampicanti e di artistiche ragnatele. Perché non cambiare vita, lasciare i logoranti ritmi cittadini e abbandonarsi alle lusinghe della natura? Liffey è entusiasta, Richard un po' meno ma non riesce a opporsi ai desideri della sua dolce metà. E così scatta la trappola. Avendo calcolato male le distanze, Richard resta in città tutta la settimana e arriva solo nel weekend. Liffey si ritrova alle prese con le difficoltà della sua nuova vita e con i suoi vicini: una coppia affiatata di contadini con cinque figli, in cui il marito, approfittando della sua ingenuità, le si infilerà nel letto, e la moglie, che ha la fama di strega, preparerà per lei decotti con erbe tutt'altro che salutari. Richard, rimasto solo a Londra, sviluppa la sindrome del dongiovanni e seduce la segretaria, la moglie del suo migliore amico e una ragazzina conosciuta per caso. Per fortuna il ciclo vitale fa il suo corso e Liffey, che ha smesso di prendere la pillola per assecondare i ritmi della natura, rimane incinta. Il suo corpo si trasforma lentamente grazie al piccolo essere che le cresce rigoglioso in grembo come la campagna attorno. La sua nascita avrà la meglio sulle tempeste ormonali e le distrazioni campestri, e la dolce Liffey si godrà un meritato lieto fine. € 17,00
Scontato: € 7,65
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2007 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Grove Pr Fay Weldon lets her incisive wit loose on a hot issue facing many modern families ? child care, and what can happen when that involves having a nanny under your roof. Hattie and Martyn are the proud parents of newborn Kitty; both are in their early thirties, smart, handsome, and, for reasons of liberal principle, not married but partnered. All seems fine at first ? healthy baby, happy couple ? but when they have to decide who'll look after little Kitty, things get complicated. Hattie's dying to get back to work but Martyn fears employing foreign help might hurt his leftist political aspirations. Martyn capitulates when Agnieska arrives ? a Polish nanny who happens to be both domestic goddess and first-rate belly dancer, the maker of a mean cup of cocoa who's also educated in early childhood development. Having her in the house makes life livable again for the young couple, so when problems arise with her immigration papers Martyn and Hattie will do anything to keep her in the country. But will their decision to have Martyn marry her be the trouble-free solution they envision. € 11,60
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2004 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Grove Pr Auto da Fayis an autobiography from a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse. Fay Weldon, one of England's best selling and most celebrated authors, looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant in this frank and funny memoir. Born Franklin Birkinshaw in 1931, Fay spent her youth in New Zealand with her sister, mother, and grandmother before moving to England. Later Fay had to scrape by as an unwed mother in London, trying marriage, then advertising, and then writing on her own. She closes her memoir as she drops what will be her first success, a television play, into a mailbox on her way to the hospital to give birth. Riddled with Weldon's customarily fierce opinions, this frank and absorbing memoir is vintage Fay. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden, or interest. With this engaging autobiography, she has finally decided to turn her authorial wit and keen eye on herself. € 12,50
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2003 |
![]() ![]() Author: Austen Jane, Weldon Fay (INT) Publisher: Hesperus Pr Written in a series of letters to the daughter of a friend, Love and Friendship tells of a young girl's path to betrayal, by way of a seemingly ecstatic marriage. It is accompanied by The Three Sisters, another expertly crafted epistolary novel. When a noble youth arrives unannounced to request the hand of the matchless Laura, it seems their future is one of contentment and bliss—that is until his family learn of the marriage and, one by one, reject the new bride. Such begins the series of unspeakable events that make up Laura's lot in life. But tragedy and comedy here go hand in hand as Austen delivers a stringent satire on drawing-room society, brilliantly heralding her later masterpieces. € 11,60
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2002 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Grove Pr Smart, sexy, and infinitely charming, Rhode Island Blues tells the story of Sophia Moore, a loveless and guarded thirty-four-year-old film editor in London who believes that her only living relative is her stormy and wild grandmother Felicity. Troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment, Sophia overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues a flat sexual affair with the famous director of her latest film. But when she travels to Rhode Island to help Felicity settle into a retirement center, she begins to unravel mysteries about her family history while Felicity learns to gamble, falls in love, and uncovers the truth about the center's evil nurse Dawn. A hilarious tale of family secrets, nursing-home high jinks, and late-life love, Rhode Island Blues is Fay Weldon at her witty best. € 11,60
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![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Fazi Alexandra Ludd, attrice affermata, è appena diventata vedova. In sua assenza, un infarto le ha portato via il marito amato, lasciandola in un dolore che presto si trasforma in indagine, al limite tra il delirio e la farsa, sui costumi di vita del defunto. € 14,00
Scontato: € 6,30
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1999 |
![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: SAMUEL FRENCH € 9,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr Twenty madcap tales profile people with therapists who destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women steering the perils of domesticity. Reprint. € 10,70
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1997 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr From the hilarious opening to the satisfying final conflagration, Fay Weldon's Worst Fears is a taut, scathing revelation of the nature of marital intimacy. When Alexandra returns from her stint on the London stage to find her husband mysteriously dead of a heart attack and her female friends ominously invested in smoothing out all the complications of the tragedy, she begins to be suspicious. At first she attributes this to grief, then to paranoia. But she soon finds herself starting to crack, crank-calling her friends' psychiatrist, attacking people with kitchen chairs and breaking into their houses, searching furiously for evidence to confirm her husband's rampant adultery and her own worst fears. 'A snappy whodunit of the heart....one of Weldon's best novels yet.' -- The New York Times Book Review; 'With a dash of murder mystery and a wink at Isben's grim tales of ruined marriages, this splendid and spiteful novel shows Fay Weldon to be in as fine form as ever.' -- The Philadelphia Inquirer; 'A hundred years hence, if people can still read, Weldon's books will likely have the unblunted edge of Jane Austen, an unsentimental Baedeker guide to sexual manners in an ill-mannered age. Fay Weldon breaks taboos like tape at a marathon, and she hasn't stopped running yet.' -- Los Angeles Times. € 10,70
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1995 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Chicago Review Pr Esther Wells goes on a diet and the scales fall from her eyes. Depriving themselves of fatty foods, both husband and wife have new perspectives on each other, and the process is one of slow destruction of their marriage. Esther tells in flashback, from the depths of her basement apartment in Earls Court, the history of her marital disaster - in between her consumption of chocolate cake, tinned fruit, sweet sherry and a host of other high-calorie goodies. This novel examines the role of Womanhood. The time is the mid-sixties when sex role stereotypes are being examined and rejected, and Fay Weldon's book reflects the passions, humor, and anger of an era when women's self-analysis entailed a good deal of disruption. This novel depicts the rage and outrage of that traumatic era. € 13,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: Sceptre Reissue of this Sceptre title. € 11,70
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1993 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Ballantine Books This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example: Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ". . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned." Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, "It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another." Or Carol E. Rinzler, who wrote on The Washington Post Book World's front page, ". . . what makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes SHE-DEVIL as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece." € 7,10
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1990 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Penguin Group USA Raised by a mad mother and a half-mad sister, abandoned by her father, Praxis Duveen is a master of the art of survival. Her life, indeed, has been full: two marriages, unsuccessful; a brief but profitable career as a prostitute; a little dabbling in incest; a mercy killing; and an inadvertent reign as both apostle and victim of the women's movement. Buffeted and battered by life, Praxis has survived with energy and humor intact. Her struggles with men and women, with mother and marriages, and most particularly, with herself, become, in Weldon's deft hands, a witty and trenchant commentary on what women want?and what they can actually get. € 11,70
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1989 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Feltrinelli € 5,16
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1986 |
![]() ![]() Author: Weldon Fay Publisher: Feltrinelli € 10,33
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Data Pubblicazione 'Non disponibile' |
![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: SAMUEL FRENCH € 12,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: SAMUEL FRENCH € 9,40
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![]() ![]() Author: Fay Weldon Publisher: SAMUEL FRENCH € 12,40
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