| Edition |
First edition. |
| 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. |
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Tales of wicked men. Wasted lives -- Love amongst the artists -- Leda and the swan. |
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Tales of wicked children. Tale of Timothy Bagshott -- Valediction. |
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From the other side. Through a dustbin, darkly -- A good sound marriage -- Web central. |
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Of love, pain and good cheer. Pains -- A question of timing -- Red on black -- Knock-knock. |
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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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| Other Form: |
Online version: Weldon, Fay. Wicked women. 1st ed. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997 (OCoLC)645671101 |
| ISBN |
0871136813 |
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9780871136817 |
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0871137011 |
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9780871137012 |
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0871137372 paperback |
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9780871137371 paperback |
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