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Fay Weldon

    22 de septiembre de 1931 – 4 de enero de 2023

    Fay Weldon es una autora, ensayista y dramaturga inglesa cuyo trabajo se ha asociado con el feminismo. En su ficción, Weldon suele retratar a mujeres contemporáneas que se encuentran atrapadas en situaciones opresivas, a menudo derivadas de la estructura patriarcal de la sociedad británica. Su escritura disecciona agudamente las normas sociales y explora las vidas interiores de personajes que luchan por la agencia y la libertad en entornos restrictivos. Con agudeza y una lente satírica, Weldon expone la hipocresía y las injusticias a las que se enfrentan las mujeres.

    Fay Weldon
    Watching Me, Watching You
    Polaris and Other Stories
    Bram Stoker's Dracula Omnibus
    The Hearts and Lives of Men
    Moon Over Minneapolis
    Die Decke des Glücks. Roman.
    • Clifford Wexford, the rising star of a Sotheby's-like international art-auction house, and Helen Lally, the daughter of an eccentric artist, fall in love at first sight in the '60s and make each other perfectly miserable for the next 20 years. Their passionate squabbles lead to the disappearance of their beautiful three-year-old daughter Nell, whose subsequent bizarre adventures involve her with the motley likes of senile French devil worshippers and kind British drug-dealers. With characteristic arch wit, Fay Weldon spins a supple, modern-day fairytale, replete with heroes and heroines, evil-doers, fairy godmothers, castles and fateful coincidences.

      The Hearts and Lives of Men
    • Polaris and Other Stories

      • 237 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      This collection of short stories dealing with the perils of love, sex, and marrage includes "In the Great War," "The School Run," and "The Sad Life of the Rich"

      Polaris and Other Stories
    • Watching Me, Watching You

      • 208 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      A distillation of our times: eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ was Fay Weldon’s first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, ‘Alopecia’, can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in ‘Threnody’, a women’s commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine. Fay Weldon’s observation is always wonderfully acute and ‘Watching Me, Watching You’ is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity. CONTENTS Christmas tree -- Breakages -- Alopecia -- Man with no eyes -- Holy stones -- Threnody -- Angel, all innocence -- Spirit of the house -- Watching me, watching you -- Geoffrey and the Eskimo child -- Weekend -- The fat woman's joke.

      Watching Me, Watching You
    • From a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse comes a memoir that looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant.

      Auto Da Fay
    • Party Puddle

      • 32 páginas
      • 2 horas de lectura

      When Rex received his party invitation, he was in a bad temper and tore it up. His sister's tears and his Mother's scolding just made him angrier, so he crawled under the bed. The illustrations take the reader into Rex's dreams of fantastic parties. The author also wrote "Wolf the Mechanical Dog".

      Party Puddle
    • Leader of the Band

      • 196 páginas
      • 7 horas de lectura

      "An ordinary person carried to extremes" is how Sandra Harris describes herself, though her outrageous behaviour may make readers doubt this. Fay Weldon has written many books including "The Life and Loves of a She-Devil" which was made into a television serial.

      Leader of the Band
    • Into the lives of four female friends erupts Leslie Beck, an old flame not quite extinguished, who catapults them into their murky past. Leslie is still a man with a life force - a force which he is more than willing to share with old and new friends, provided of course that they are women.

      Life force