Moon Over Minneapolis
by Fay Weldon
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A vibrant collection of stories about women making life-altering decisions, by the bestselling author of The Life and Loves of a She-DevilIn this superlative anthology, Fay Weldon introduces readers to a cast of mothers, children, wives, and lovers-all of them unforgettable, timeless female characters. In "Subject to Diary," a successful forty-ish career woman sits in an abortion clinic pondering motherhood. In "The Year of the Green Pudding," a woman who seems to doom everyone and show more everything she touches vows never to fall in love again. And an analyst's office is the setting for a series of s show lessTags
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I enjoyed reading this collection of shorts. They are all punctuated with the same irony and quirkiness that delves under the surface. Their casual tone invites you to share an understanding of misunderstandings and prejudice that come with relationships between family, friends, siblings, lovers, employee and employer and the community. It delivers with quiet humour the imperfections of life and relationships.
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Fay Weldon was born in Worcester, England on September 22, 1931. She read economics and psychology at the University of St. Andrews. She worked as a propaganda writer for the British Foreign Office and then as an advertising copywriter for various firms in London before making writing a full-time career. Her work includes over twenty novels, five show more collections of short stories, several children's books, non-fiction books, and a number of plays written for television, radio and the stage. Her collections of short stories include Mischief and Nothing to Wear and Nowhere to Hide. She wrote a memoir entitled Auto Da Fay and non-fiction book entitled What Makes Women Happy. She wrote the pilot episode for the television series Upstairs Downstairs. Her first novel, The Fat Woman's Joke, was published in 1967. Her other novels include Praxis, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, Rhode Island Blues, Mantrapped, She May Not Leave, The Spa Decameron, Habits of the House, Long Live the King, and The New Countess. Wicked Women won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She was awarded a CBE in 2001. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)That is all, Miss Jacobs, for today.
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