An edition of Wicked Women (Weldon, Fay) (1995)
Wicked women
stories
By Fay Weldon
Publish Date
1997
Publisher
The Atlantic Monthly Press
Language
eng
Pages
300
Description:
In this title. 20 stories profile therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women navigating the perils and pitfalls of domesticity. Description: vi, 311 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: Tales of wicked women. End of the line -- Run and ask Daddy if he has any more money -- In the Great War (II) -- Not even a blood relation. Tales of wicked men. Wasted lives -- Love amongst the artists -- Leda and the swan. Tales of wicked children. Tale of Timothy Bagshott -- Valediction. From the other side. Through a dustbin, darkly -- A good sound marriage -- Web central. Of love, pain and good cheer. Pains -- A question of timing -- Red on black -- Knock-knock. Going to the therapist. Santa Claus's new clothes -- Baked Alaska -- The pardoner -- Heat haze.