| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 311 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Tales of wicked women: End of the line -- Run and ask daddy if he has any more money -- In the Great War (II) -- Not even a blood relation -- Tales of wicked men: Wasted lives -- Love amongst the artists -- Leda and the swan -- Tales of wicked children: Tale of Timothy Bagshott -- Valediction -- From the other side: Through a dustbin, darkly -- A good sound marriage -- Web central -- Of love, pain and good cheer: Pains -- A question of timing -- Red on black -- Knock-knock -- Going to the therapist: Santa Claus's new clothes -- Baked Alaska -- The pardoner -- Heat haze. |
| Summary |
Twenty madcap stories in a world peopled with therapists who blithely destroy marriages and family ties, husbands and lovers whose greatest cruelty is their indifference, and clever women navigating the perils of domesticity. A social commentary by the author of Worst Fears. |
| Subject |
Women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
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Women -- Social life and customs. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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| ISBN |
0871136813 |
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0871137011 |
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