Fay Weldon
Novels


Life Force Viking First American Edition, 1992 First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins, 1992
From the book jacket: Since the first scripts she wrote for the seminal television series Upstairs Downstairs, Fay Weldon has documented our morals and mores with devil-may-care exuberance. Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Award for The Heart of the Country, she is recognized by readers and reviewers everywhere as the great arbiter in - sometimes instigator of - the battle between the sexes. But what of the sexes when they are not at war? What of the glorious pleasure they give one another - at least for a time? Fay Weldon's sixteenth novel is about the irresistible delights of sexuality and the havoc we sometimes cause when we give in to them. It is about marriage and infidelity and the fact that one occasionally requires the other for survival. And it is about a very vital ten inches belonging to one Leslie Beck, aka Leslie the Magnificent. Many years earlier, Leslie Beck entered the lives of four female friends, Nora, Marion, Rosalie and Susan - some married, some not, some more innocent than others. Now he is back to stir old desires and rivalries, to revitalize, if he can, the secrets, passions, and infidelities of the past (and to inspire a few querulous questions concerning paternity). In Life Force, Fay Weldon summons her celebrated "write, gutsy, and beguiling wit" (New York Times Book Review) to address pleasure - how we pursue it, how it fits into our lives, how we judge it. The life force must not be denied, suggests our author. More than just a mischievous, glorious novel, vintage Weldon, here is a literary handbook to all our pasts and, with any luck, our futures too. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon was raised in a household of women in New Zealand, and produced four sons of her own, as if to balance the gender count. After taking degrees in economics and psychology at the University of Edinburgh, she survived a decade of odd jobs and hard times, then began writing film and television scripts and fiction. Among her eighteen novels and short-story collections are The Cloning of Joanna May, The Hearts and Lives of Men, The Shrapnel Academy, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Leader of the Band, Puffball, and The Heart of the Country, winner of the 1989 Los Angeles Times Fiction Award. Fay Weldon lives in London and Somerset.

Life Force
Viking
First American Edition, 1992
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins, 1992

From the book jacket:
Since the first scripts she wrote for the seminal television series Upstairs Downstairs, Fay Weldon has documented our morals and mores with devil-may-care exuberance. Winner of the Los Angeles Time Book Award for The Heart of the Country, she is recognized by readers and reviewers everywhere as the great arbiter in - sometimes instigator of - the battle between the sexes.
But what of the sexes when they are not at war? What of the glorious pleasure they give one another - at least for a time? Fay Weldon's sixteenth novel is about the irresistible delights of sexuality and the havoc we sometimes cause when we give in to them. It is about marriage and infidelity and the fact that one occasionally requires the other for survival. And it is about a very vital ten inches belonging to one Leslie Beck, aka Leslie the Magnificent.
Many years earlier, Leslie Beck entered the lives of four female friends, Nora, Marion, Rosalie and Susan - some married, some not, some more innocent than others. Now he is back to stir old desires and rivalries, to revitalize, if he can, the secrets, passions, and infidelities of the past (and to inspire a few querulous questions concerning paternity).
In Life Force, Fay Weldon summons her celebrated "write, gutsy, and beguiling wit" (New York Times Book Review) to address pleasure - how we pursue it, how it fits into our lives, how we judge it. The life force must not be denied, suggests our author. More than just a mischievous, glorious novel, vintage Weldon, here is a literary handbook to all our pasts and, with any luck, our futures too.
Bio from the book jacket:
Fay Weldon was raised in a household of women in New Zealand, and produced four sons of her own, as if to balance the gender count. After taking degrees in economics and psychology at the University of Edinburgh, she survived a decade of odd jobs and hard times, then began writing film and television scripts and fiction. Among her eighteen novels and short-story collections are The Cloning of Joanna May, The Hearts and Lives of Men, The Shrapnel Academy, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Leader of the Band, Puffball, and The Heart of the Country, winner of the 1989 Los Angeles Times Fiction Award. Fay Weldon lives in London and Somerset.

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