Fay Weldon
Short Story Collections
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Polaris and Other Stories
Hodder and Stoughton First British Edition, 1989 Published in the U.S. by Penquin, 1985 (softcover only) | |
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From the book jacket:
Polaris and Other Stories is Fay Weldon's second collection of short stories, each one funny, tragic, trough-minded or soft-hearted, according to the mood and inclination of the reader. Of her first collection, Waching Me, Watching You, The Times wrote: 'This collection … shows her work at its most typical. Her range of subject matter is broad. Her emotional insights are as profound as ever.' In this second series of stories, Weldon ranges further from home - the wilds of Scotland in Polaris where Timmy, sub-mariner and one fifteenth of Britain's nuclear Attack Team conducts his uneasy marriage, to distant Tasmania in Oh Mary Don't You Cry Any More, where the strong southern winds bear hope and grief away - via everyday suburbia, so elegantly yet scurrilously viewed in Christmas Lists - a story which advances by means of the lists which ca compulsive list-maker compiles over the years. These three and many more combine to make a stunning collection of short stories. Bio from the book: Fay Weldon was born and brought up in New Zealand and went to St Anders University, in Scotland, where she graduated in Economics and Psychology. After a decade of odd jobs and hard times, she started writing and now, though primarily a novelist (Praxis, Puffball, Life and Loves of a She-Devil amongst them), she also writes short stories and radio dramas and is a prolific stage and screen writer. Stories included in this edition:
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