Polaris and Other Stories (King Penguin) - Softcover

Weldon, Fay

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9780140097474: Polaris and Other Stories (King Penguin)

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ISBN 10: 0140097473 ISBN 13: 9780140097474

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1989

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This collection of short stories dealing with the perils of love, sex, and marrage includes "In the Great War," "The School Run," and "The Sad Life of the Rich"

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About the Author:

Fay Weldon is well-known at home and abroad as a novelist, playwright, critic and screenwriter, several of whose novels have been adapted for film and television, including THE LIFE AND LOVES OF A SHE DEVIL. For more information about Fay and her work, visit her website: http://www.fayweldon.co.uk.

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Readers with a taste for spice in their literary fare should try these two books. The fantastic situations they offer stretch one's willing suspension of disbelief but ultimately reward with the provocative revision of old assumptions. Few authors could or would address the morality of abortion and genetic engineering in a comic novel, but Weldon succeeds in her tale of wild, sexy Sandra, a famous astronomer of bizarre parentage, who at 42 abandons career and husband to run away with the eponymous Leader, also married. Their stop for a jazz gig in France is an interlude haunted in every sense, alternating hysterically between romp and catharsis. Most of the 12 stories in Polaris are more subdued. The title story explores marital and other bonds within the peculiar society of modern submariners. The young bride of "In the Great War" finds that she has more in common with her stepdaughters than with her husband. "The School Run" neatly inverts some stock sentiments about victims of obsessive love. Unrestrained comedy reigns in the final selection, "Redundant! Or the Wife's Revenge," in which an ill-assorted group engages in a slapstick search for Mr./Ms. Right, all in a plastic surgery ward. Diverting, well crafted, and recommended.
- Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
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