Fay Weldon
Short Story Collections

Watching Me, Watching You
Includes her first novel "The Fat Woman's Joke"
Summit Books
First American Edition, 1981
Published in Great Britain by Hodder and Stoughton, 1981
From the book jacket:

When Fay Weldon's first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967, The New York Times Book Review called it "a delicious tour de force ... a nourishing book." This wonderful first novel, long out of print, is reissued here, together with eleven new short stories - Ms. Weldon's first collection to be published in America - in which she turns her wit on the tragicomic relationships between men and women.

Bio from the book jacket:

Fay Weldon's previous novels are Down Among the Women, Female Friends, Remember Me, Words of Advice, Praxis, and most recently Puffball, which was a best seller in England. She has also written other short stories as well as plays and scripts for television and theater. Ms. Weldon has four sons and currently lives in London.

Stories included in this edition:

  • Christmas Tree
  • Breakages
  • Alopecia
  • Man with No Eyes
  • Holy Stones
  • Angel, All Innocence
  • Spirit of the House
  • Watching Me, Watching You
  • Geoffrey and the Eskimo Child
  • Weekend
Note:

  • Watching Me, Watching You was a commissioned television play in the Leap in the Dark series, BBC Bristol 1980, produced by Michael Croucher, directed by Colin Godman.

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