Fay Weldon
Novels
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Mantrapped
London: 4th Estate (an imprint of HarperCollins) First British Edition, 2004 Published in the U.S by Grove Press, 2004 | |
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From the book jacket:
Trisha had been rich and Trisha had been poor, and she knew it was better to be rich. But now she was to be poor again: not just poor but stripped of her identify. She is to swap sex, and her very soul, with young, handsome, trendy Peter Watson. She passes him too close upon the stairs, and some might think what happens - a first in mankind's history - is an improvement and some might not. Peter's partner Doralee thinks not. Inadvisable, writes Fay Welson, in this book - part high concept novel, part memoir, part the recent history of a culture - to cross on the stairs. The old myths might be right. You can lose your soul all too easily. Mantrapped is the continuing story of Fay Weldon, writer, mother, daughter, sister, cook, campaigner, juggler of life, time, work and money. Like Trisha she has been rich, and like Trisha she has been poor: like Trisha she has been well and truly mantrapped, and - unlike Trisha - does not regret it one bit. From 1960s London (wild parties, no money) to 1970s Somerset (animals, wild parties, no money) Weldon has lived a life rich in adventure and courage. The things you regret, as she points out, are what you don't do, not what you do. She argues in this vastly entertaining book, that in a world in which the writer can no longer hope to be anonymous, it is devious, and indeed dishonourable, to keep yourself out of your own novels. The reader, hoping for bread, should not be given stones. Bio from the book jacket: Fay Weldon is a novelist, screenwriter and cultural journalist. Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May, Big Women and Rhode Island Blues. She lives in Dorset. | |