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Fay Weldon

    22 september 1931 – 4 januari 2023

    Fay Weldon is een Engelse auteur, essayiste en toneelschrijfster wiens werk geassocieerd is met feminisme. In haar fictie portretteert Weldon doorgaans hedendaagse vrouwen die verstrikt raken in onderdrukkende situaties, vaak voortkomend uit de patriarchale structuur van de Britse samenleving. Haar schrijven ontleedt scherp maatschappelijke normen en onderzoekt de innerlijke levens van personages die streven naar autonomie en vrijheid in beperkende omgevingen. Met scherpe humor en een satirische blik legt Weldon de hypocrisie en onrechtvaardigheid bloot waarmee vrouwen worden geconfronteerd.

    Fay Weldon
    Leven en liefdes van een duivelin
    De Bulgari connectie
    Praxis
    Vriendinnen
    Crossing Border
    De harten en levens van mannen
    • Inspired by a series of instructive letters written by Austen to a novel-writing niece, Letters to Alice is an epistolary novel in which an important modern writer responds to her niece's complaint that Jane Austen is boring and irrelevant. By turns passionate and ironic, "Aunt Fay" makes Alice think--not only about books and literature, but also life and culture.

      Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen2017
      3,1
    • 'Elegantly written, sharply perceptive and fantastically good fun' Daily Mail .

      Death of a She Devil2017
      2,6
    • Before the War

      • 400bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      From a lioness of British literature, an absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and – worse – intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic London publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months. Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars: a city soaked in drizzle, peopled with flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked servicemen and aristocrats desperately clinging onto the past. Inventive, witty and empathetic, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the foremost novelists of our time.

      Before the War2016
      3,1
    • Long Live the King

      • 368bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      The second novel in Fay Weldon's Love and Inheritance trilogy, following the lives and loves of an aristocratic family at the turn of the nineteenth century.

      Long Live the King2013
      3,6
    • The New Countess

      Love & Inheritance

      • 336bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      The third and final instalment in Fay Weldon's Love & Inheritance trilogy sees the Dilbernes frantically preparing for a visit from the Royals.

      The New Countess2013
      3,5
    • Habits of the House

      • 314bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      A pitch-perfect story of life above and below stairs and an elegy to the last days of aristocracy and Empire.

      Habits of the House2012
      3,3
    • Dopo il crash

      • 304bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Nel cuore della notte, Frances sente bussare alla porta: sono i funzionari del nuovo governo, pronti a confiscare le sue proprietà. Un tempo scrittrice di successo, nel 2013 si ritrova povera, sola e anziana, confinata nella sua casa al numero 3 di Chalcot Crescent. Per fuggire dalla realtà, si rifugia nella scrittura, l'arte che le ha dato tutto. Così, ci offre un affresco storico arricchito da cronache quotidiane sulla sua numerosa e strampalata famiglia, narrando con ironia cinquant'anni di eventi cruciali come il crollo del comunismo e la nascita di un nuovo governo tirannico. Non mancano siparietti con il nipote tossico e rivoluzionario, gli amori della sua gioventù, l'astio di una figlia vetero femminista e le tribolazioni dell'altra, sposata a un politico di spicco. Man mano che Frances si immerge nel suo racconto, il confine tra realtà e fantasia diventa labile, alimentando dubbi e timori. Dove vanno a finire gli abitanti del quartiere quando il governo li "ricolloca"? E cosa contiene il Polpettone Nazionale, surrogato di carne per un'Inghilterra indigente? Surreale e intricato, il libro ci trascina in una danza della mente, lasciandoci con la sensazione di aver letto un'opera di grande originalità.

      Dopo il crash2011
      3,0
    • Deník macechy

      • 230bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Jednoho dnes se Sapfo objeví přede dveřmi psychoanalytické ordinace, kde pracuje její matka, a rychle jí předá rukopis se slovy, že jde o její deníky. Populární anglická autorka tak začíná příběh ženy, kterou všichni odrazovali, aby se vdala za vdovce Gavina. Je pro ni moc starý, říkali jedni, jiní zase upozorňovali na možnost, že chlap si vyhlédnul jen její dům. A že prý jí jeho děti ze života udělají peklo. To je všechno možné, ale citům neporučíš.

      Deník macechy2011
      3,2
    • Nackt lesen macht Laune. Für diese außergewöhnliche Sammlung erotischer Geschichten haben zwanzig bekannte britische Autorinnen alle Hüllen fallengelassen und beweisen, frau kann über Sex schreiben – und zwar humorvoll, unverkrampft und herrlich unterhaltsam. Das Ergebnis: zwanzig ganz besondere Gutenachtgeschichten für Erwachsene. Schlüpfen Sie unter die Laken – süße Träume sind garantiert! «Unverkrampft sexy.» (Glamour)

      Gute Nacktgeschichten2010
      2,7
    • Als Phoebe Fox beim Friseur die Anzeige sieht, steht für sie fest: Weihnachten wird sie in dem vornehmen 'Castle Spa' verbringen, ganz ohne Familie. Die Frauen, auf die sie dort trifft, könnten verschiedener kaum sein. Eine Richterin, eine Verschwörungstheoretikerin, die Exfrau eines Pfarrers, eine Kosmetikerin und eine Psychoanalytikerin: Durch das extreme Wetter von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten, erzählen sie der Schriftstellerin am Whirlpool ihr Leben. Ihre bissig-ironischen Geschichten handeln von Triumph und Niederlage, von Eifersucht, sexuellen Eskapaden und Intrigen, ja sogar von Totschlag.

      Spa-Geflüster2010
      3,1