Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide: A Collection of Short Stories
Fay Weldon
A wonderful collection on topical themes from the controversial ‘product-placement’ author of The Bulgari Connection.A superb new collection of stories: shrewd, sharp, insightful, with a cheerfully dark view of the world.The wronged wife remains a lingering presence even after the mistress has moved in to her home. Oriole, an enormously successful businesswoman married to the ineffectual Hugh, begins to re-evaluate her life, when her best crockery keeps mysteriously flying through the air. A sculptor finds love while protecting a Roman graveyard from property developers. A Christmas gathering turns murderous for one unhappy guest. A travel writer watches, horrified, as her father runs of with her best friend, but is soon planning revenge.The entire collection is shot through with Weldon's trademark mischievous deceitfulness, her hidden meanings and agendas. Rich, mad, greedy, deceitful, vulnerable her characters may be, but the stories maintain a defiantly optimistic air and sparkle with the irrepressible wit with which Weldon writes about the lives of modern men and women.
Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide
Fay Weldon
Stories
Table of Contents
Cover Page (#u3ea9f3d1-dbf8-5ba6-9bb2-8221e4b3330f)
Title Page (#u545a6470-98cc-5e87-a0a4-93e9178edd71)
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT (#ue73d8701-ae00-51a0-b29c-01813c682f46)
Eyes in the Dark (#udb581b9a-4b24-59e0-b6d7-9e3cd7b822c4)
A Knife for Cutting Mangoes (#ua9dcf9ed-dd84-5948-bf3f-00ce502ae9a4)
The Medium is the Message (#u3046932c-c174-5a19-b1ec-623daae857c0)
The Site (#uc0116c16-6ea0-5081-b901-304f3f004d59)
THE DEVIOUS AND DELECTABLE (#u1045b493-fe48-5434-8094-d2ed78ca238d)
A Summer Person (#u445ad2b3-99e2-53a5-a411-119472c25daf)
What the Papers Say (#uc8af453a-2d7f-5381-8b6f-44f2202452bd)
Smoking Chimneys (#u54c8f228-3e71-57ae-b771-84bdc747c076)
Percentage Trust (#u72efae31-e39d-5f56-8a31-a7e7ff462c7b)
MAKING DO (#uf574be68-3c10-5b0a-8442-595e0ae7889f)
How Donna Came to Win the Lottery (#u6e3385b4-d6cc-5787-a45f-de3d4d2e1042)
Trophy Wife (#u94f8961c-90bf-55f2-a340-ccdc02afefce)
Live Like a Dog, Alone (#uf4afc331-4e47-5e58-b332-8d32e569ade7)
Well, I Said (#ue39ed1f2-5383-5f27-9c3e-b696bed1fd7d)
MAKING GOOD (#u19cc410e-7fed-59b8-84aa-7dc1baf56d31)
Freeze Eggs, Freeze Eggs! (#u2c8431ad-d60e-5a17-9a6c-81ea941960b2)
Cold, Wet Nose (#u65d67a23-1d10-5631-b1f7-d5fce02f3ef5)
Wild Strawberries (#ud0559760-8410-56fc-8adb-a7441e7d7b62)
I, Boadicea (#u94ceed1e-f6a4-5872-9bfa-bb86eaee5228)
HOW WE LIVE NOW (#u198a7ad4-d620-59aa-a406-63997cdd04ac)
Nothing to Wear (#u8766306e-6778-511a-8c22-b133a8be5d57)
Heaven Knows (#u9a9e991a-d963-582f-aa92-a4922560a835)
Living by the Small Print (#u18680f6a-67c5-5e4d-b025-a1a0d751cd06)
Queen Gertrude plc A radio play (#udd69a4d4-ef2f-5bb2-add5-6d2b1a47430a)
Also by Fay Weldon (#uc0649d82-f44d-54b0-b300-a0ecdc40f1e9)
Copyright (#u926d1fdd-a2c3-58fc-88c9-699ff5bd04bb)
About the Publisher (#u5a98a1ba-77f0-5f20-95d7-5c4d7bd0c123)
THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT (#ulink_cf969b8d-454d-5648-8aa8-2ddb7cc1c597)
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Fay Weldon
Тип: электронная книга
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
Язык: на английском языке
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Издательство: HarperCollins
Дата публикации: 16.04.2024
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О книге: A wonderful collection on topical themes from the controversial ‘product-placement’ author of The Bulgari Connection.A superb new collection of stories: shrewd, sharp, insightful, with a cheerfully dark view of the world.The wronged wife remains a lingering presence even after the mistress has moved in to her home. Oriole, an enormously successful businesswoman married to the ineffectual Hugh, begins to re-evaluate her life, when her best crockery keeps mysteriously flying through the air. A sculptor finds love while protecting a Roman graveyard from property developers. A Christmas gathering turns murderous for one unhappy guest. A travel writer watches, horrified, as her father runs of with her best friend, but is soon planning revenge.The entire collection is shot through with Weldon′s trademark mischievous deceitfulness, her hidden meanings and agendas. Rich, mad, greedy, deceitful, vulnerable her characters may be, but the stories maintain a defiantly optimistic air and sparkle with the irrepressible wit with which Weldon writes about the lives of modern men and women.