Description:
Samuel French, Great Britain, 1974. Softcover. Good Condition. Now, from the writer who made grisly comic fodder of an ugly woman's revenge in The Life and Loves of a She-Devil comes the first novel to take the long, and caustic, view of the feminist orthodoxies of the last 30 years and the women who embraced, disseminated, and were sometimes disappointed by them. Deftly managing the biggest cast she's yet conjured, Fay Weldon recounts the 1971 founding of distaff Medusa Press by a goofily believable gaggle of British feminists--Stephanie, the beautiful one; Alice, the philosopher; Layla, the ambitious; Nancy the organized, who becomes Medusa's office manager; blonde Daffy, of the breeder urges; Zoe, the wife and mother who writes a feminist classic and commits suicide, the novel's sole victim of patriarchal oppression. Everyone else, male and female alike, is more the casualty of ideas at odds with desires and the inexorable ironies of trickster time. A lot of the comedy is…
Read More Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Details
- Title Words of Advice (Acting Edition)
- Author Fay Weldon
- Binding Paperback
- Publisher Samuel French Ltd
- Date 1975
- ISBN 9780573023385
More Copies for Sale
Words of Advice
by Fay Weldon
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780573023385 / 0573023387
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Bowral, New South Wales, Australia
- Item Price
-
€3.10€21.71 shipping to USA
Show Details
Item Price
€3.10
€21.71
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Words of Advice (Acting Edition S.)
by Weldon, Fay
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780573023385 / 0573023387
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Boat of Garten, Highland, Highland, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
€10.66€24.87 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Samuel French Ltd. 1975 Samuel French paperback, French's Acting Edition; Very Good clean copy, just rusty staples; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Very Good. Soft cover. 1975.
Item Price
€10.66
€24.87
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Words of Advice (Acting Edition)
by Fay Weldon
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780573023385 / 0573023387
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
HOUSTON, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
€40.29FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Samuel French Ltd, 1975-01-01. Paperback. Good.
Item Price
€40.29
FREE shipping to USA