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The author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil introduces us to Annette Horrocks, a pregnant London housewife who feels betrayed and manipulated by her philandering, New Age philosophy spouting, novelist husband. Reprint. ... Read more

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Forceful but flawed
Weldon's "Trouble" brilliantly captures how being engulfed in a powerful relationship can cause one's perception of reality to falter. It pulls this off in a way I don't think I've seen before in fiction. I found the book extremely engrossing and was amazed by how much Annette is transformed by the sad, sad ending: from a confident, witty writer to a simpering, apologetic, self-doubting and very ill shadow of her former self. I was disappointed, as others have said, by how two-dimensional the "bad guys" were; Spicer was pure, pure evil, and the other characters are either just as bad or total morons, making this book a bit too bitter to be believable. Nevertheless, it's absolutely worth reading and very hard to put down.

Just how stupid is Annette?
Apparently so stupid that she ignores her own health care to the point of tragedy.Up to that point I had a bit of sympathy for her but she has no one to blame but herself for what she does to her baby.I had no sympathy for her from this point on at all.

I can't believe I read the whole dismal book, something in common with those train wrecks you can't quite turn away from.But there wasn't one person in the book that was even likeable much less admirable.If this is the European Sensibility you can have it.

EVERYBODY'S GOT TROUBLE

This is a slim volume to hold so much satire, yet it does.Followers of Fay Weldon's tragic/comic chronicles of dour domestic bliss will find the author again coming through with wry.
Living in London with her husband, Spicer, and their two children from former marriages, Annette Horrocks appears to have everything any woman could wish - her first novel will soon be published and she is expecting a baby.But, in true Weldonesque fashion, this idyll unravels.

Possessing a sharp eye and an equally sharp pen, the author seems to have more of a following among women than men.That should be the case with Trouble, yet Weldon surprises as it isn't only a woman's story.

The author of some twenty novels and short story collections, Weldon has the ability to make the banal sharply bright and everyday experiences stand out in bold dramatic relief.She's not a sexist - she skewers the foibles of both men and women with equal aplomb.

Amazing
Despite the fact that the characters in "Trouble" are mostly more or less normal post-modern professionals going throgh typical identity and relationship conflicts, it does not feel at all like a "soap opera" or other fodder for daytime television.Weldon could easily teach Seinfeld and Tarantino a thing or two about gritty, realistic dialogue and making the trivial fascinating.Annette seems like such a real person that I could scarcely put the book down and read it in about two days.Spicer's pseudo-Jungian New Age obsessions were also so hillarious that I had to keep reading just to see how irrational,deluded and self-obsessed he could become.

Acidly-written, from the heart.
This novel, entitled "Affliction' in the UK, was torn apart by most critics over here when it first appeared. The reason? It was too close to the truth, which is a rather odd criticism of a novel. Weldon's ownmarriage of 30 years had ended in a bitter divorce that was more or lesscarried out in public. In my view this actually adds fire to the book,which is breathtakingly unputdownable. The mental torture, the phoneytherapy, the increasing impossibility for the female protagonist ofdistinguishing fact from fiction, the negation of memory and the horror ofisolation ring absolutely true, and make for a gripping read that willpierce the heart of anyone who has ever experienced the breaking-down of arelationship. Through all of this, Weldon maintains her inimitable ironicdetachment and her blacker than black sense of humour. A fiery, miniaturemasterpiece. ... Read more

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These short stories--chosen from Weldon's Watching Me, Watching You and Polaris and Other Stories--largely depict middle-class human relationships both within and outside the family. 2 cassettes. ... Read more

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This is a collection of stories by Fay Weldon, a writer concerned with sexual warfare. This anthology features oafish men, conniving women, blameless and infamous behaviour by both sexes, seduction, rejection and alimony. ... Read more

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Intriguing
Naked Graffiti is an intriguing collection of erotic short stories.While sometimes titillating, the tales tend more toward exploration of the ideas and relationships surrounding sex than the mechanics of sexual activity.Some of the stories are brilliant gems, while others are a bit flat and predictable.All told, the collection is worth the read. ... Read more

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Alice is an eighteen-year-old student and aspiring novelist with green spiky hair, a child of the modern age who recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters reminiscent of Jane Austen's to her own neice, 'aunt' Fay examines the rewards of such study. Not only is her correspondence a revealing tribute to a great writer - it is also an original and rewarding exploration of the craft of fiction itself. ... Read more

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A provocative view of modern society weaved into a tale of explosive love and, perhaps, even, black magic.Scandalous Eleanor Darcy, wild young wife of a world-famous economist, sketches her vision of Utopia to two journalists, Hugo Vansitart and Valarie Jones. In glorious detail, she describes an earthly paradise of peace, love and technological progress where sex is plentiful and money does not exist. Such is Eleanor's charisma that, to their own astonishment, Hugo and Valerie abandon their families and set up home together om a Holiday Inn. ... Read more

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Darcy's Utopia is a very provoking book!
I personally think that Darcy's Utopia is a very provoking book. It is very witty and humourful! ... Read more