Synopsis
The titles in the "Textplus" series, designed to reflect the changing nature of English Literature at advanced post-GCSE level, offer the complete text with a specially commissioned introduction and compact background notes placing the work in historical and critical context. Together, these components are intended to open up the text for students, allowing them to plot their own course of study, to plan extended projects, to compare writers' perspectives on similar themes and to relate works to key social and historical phenomena.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
As featured on BBC Radio 4 as part of the Riot Girls series
Ruth Patchett never thought of herself as particularly devilish. Rather the opposite in fact - simply a tall, not terribly attractive woman living a quiet life as a wife and mother in a respectable suburb. But when she discovers that her husband is having a passionate affair with the lovely romantic novelist Mary Fisher, she is so seized by envy that she becomes truly diabolic. Within weeks she has burnt down the family home, collected the insurance, made love to the local drunk and embarked on a course of destruction and revenge.
A blackly comic satire of the war of the sexes, THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL is the fantasy of the wronged woman made real.
Revue de presse
'A tour de force: a macabre, fast-moving moral fable' (The Times)
'More audacious and striking in design than anything that has gone before . . . carried out with such dash and glitter' (Times Literary Supplement)
'Rousing . . . The fun grows steadily blacker and wilder' (Guardian)
'A savage, sadistic even, but beautifully and compellingly written satire' (Sunday Express)
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