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Love is a bourgeois construct

The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

May 24, 2023 by jormis Leave a Comment

An anti-romance, sometimes referred to as a satire, is a type of story characterized by having an apathetic or self-doubting anti-hero cast as the protagonist, who fails in the object of his journey or struggle. (Wikipedia) Ruth Patchett lives in a nice suburb of Eden Grove. She is married with two children, a dog, a cat and a hamster. The house has two bathrooms and picture windows. It is very new. It is a good life. Unless you consider the fact neither husband nor children […]

The Life and Loves of a She Devil by Fay Weldon

February 21, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.” Another reread for me from grad school. For whatever reason I watched the movie version of this book several times as a kid. It had Roseanne Barr as the title character, with Meryl Streep as Mary Fisher and Ed Begley as Bobbo. In the novel, Ruth’s husband Bobbo is going to leave her for Mary Fisher. Mary Fisher is […]

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Leader of the Band by Fay Weldon

August 14, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

This is 1989 novel by Fay Weldon, the British novelist most famous for The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil, a novel I read for a class in grad school (great class about body issues in literature) and a movie I saw weirdly as a kid a number of times starring Roseanne Barr and Ed Begley Jr and Meryl Streep. But this book is about a woman who is on the cusp of leaving her loveless marriage and is following a jazz trumpetist into the […]

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