The Life and Loves of a She-Devil - Couverture rigide

Weldon, Fay

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0394539206 ISBN 13 : 9780394539201

Editeur : Pantheon Books, 1984

Synopsis

Humble and unassuming Ruth, long-suffering wife and mother is ditched by her husband and decides to get what she wants--power, money, sex, and revenge

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:
Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it ". . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned."
Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, "It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another."
Or Carol E. Rinzler, who wrote on The Washington Post Book World's front page, ". . . what makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes SHE-DEVIL as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece."

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pantheon Books
• Date d'édition: 1984
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0394539206
• ISBN 13: 9780394539201
• Reliure: Relié
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible