A Hard Time to Be a Father Stories

by Weldon, Fay

• ISBN13: 9781582340661
• ISBN10: 1582340668
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Fay Weldon won the Silver Pen Award for her last collection of stories,Wicked Women. Here are nineteen sparkling new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and would-be fathers; of houses ancient and modern. Stories, in fact, to enlighten us to the true and timeless nature of the human condition, in this new age of self-knowledge.

Author Biography

Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand. Her novels and short stories are bestsellers around the world. Her film and television work has been accorded great critical acclaim. She lives and works in London.

Table of Contents

What the Papers Say	p. 3
The Ghost of Potlatch Past	p. 21
Once in Love in Oslo	p. 29
GUP - or Falling in Love in Helsinki	p. 42
Come on, Everyone!	p. 59
Percentage Trust	p. 67
Inside the Whale - or: I Don't Know But I've Been Told	p. 77
Move Out: Move On	p. 87
New Year's Day	p. 97
Inspector Remorse	p. 105
My Mother Said	p. 115
A Libation of Blood	p. 124
Pyroclastic Flow	p. 140
Spirits Fly South	p. 149
Stasi	p. 173
A Great Antipodean Scandal	p. 182
New Advances	p. 203
Noisy into the Night	p. 204
A Hard Time to be a Father	p. 218
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