Mischief
Fay Weldon Selects Her Best Short Stories
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2015
400 pages
978-1-78408-101-0 (ISBN)
Description
'She's a Queen of Words' CAITLIN MORAN.
'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR.
'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN.
'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS.
'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES.
'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT.
Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words. Choosing and and introducing twenty-one of her favourite short stories written throughout her fifty year career as one of Britain's foremost novelists. Included as a bonus is a new novella, The Ted Dreams, a ghost story for the age of cyber culture, big pharma, and surveillance.
'One of the great lionesses of modern English literature' HARPER'S BAZAAR.
'Readable, articulate and fascinating' THE SCOTSMAN.
'Outrageously funny' DAILY EXPRESS.
'Sharp, witty, incisive' THE TIMES.
'Wise, knowing, forthright' INDEPENDENT.
Reviewers have been describing Fay Weldon's inimitable voice for years. Now, here is Fay Weldon in her own words. Choosing and and introducing twenty-one of her favourite short stories written throughout her fifty year career as one of Britain's foremost novelists. Included as a bonus is a new novella, The Ted Dreams, a ghost story for the age of cyber culture, big pharma, and surveillance.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78408-101-0 (9781784081010)
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Schweitzer Classification
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Person
Weldon's work includes more than twenty novels, five collections of short stories, several children's books, nonfiction books, magazine articles, and a number of plays written for television, radio, and the stage. She was awarded a CBE in 2001.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Angel All Innocence
- Alopecia
- The Man with No Eyes
- Breakages
- Weekend
- Delights of France or Horrors of the Road
- Down the Clinical Disco
- A Gentle Tonic Effect
- Chew You Up and Spit You Out
- Ind Aff or Out of Love in Sarajevo
- Baked Alaska
- GUP or Falling in Love in Helsinki
- Love Amongst the Artists
- Lily Bart's Hat Shop
- Knock-Knock
- Wasted Lives
- A Knife for Cutting Mangoes
- Smoking Chimneys
- Happy Yuletide Schiphol
- Why Did She Do That?
- Christmas on Møn
- The Ted Dreams - a novella
- Preview
- Original Publication Details
- About this Book
- Reviews
- About the Author
- The Love & Inheritance Trilogy
- Also by this Author
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
