Watching Me, Watching You
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Finished December 01. 2006: Weldon, Fay (1981). Watching me, watching you. London: Hodder and Stoughton (208 p.)
Synopsis (from Amazon)
A distillation of our times. Eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. Watching Me, Watching You was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, 'Alopecia', can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in 'Threnody', a women's commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine. Fay Weldon's observation is always wonderfully acute and Watching Me, Watching You is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity.
And my own comment
Eleven short stories by feminist Fay:
1. Christmas Tree
2. Breakages
3. Alopecia
4. Man with no eyes
5. Holy Stones
6. Threnody
7. Angel, all innocence
8. Spirit of the house
9. Watching me, watching you
10. Geoffrey and the Eskimo child
11. Weekend
Rather pleasant to read. I'm a self proclaimed feminist as well, but still I feel sorry for the men who ever read this book, because the male characters are all evil...
Synopsis (from Amazon)
A distillation of our times. Eleven short stories from this brilliant contemporary writer. Watching Me, Watching You was Fay Weldon's first collection of short stories. They vary widely in theme, while remaining avowedly feminist, sometimes bitter, sometimes angry, yet always handled with wit, irony and courage. A sense of sisterhood is one of the most important qualities a woman may possess and its loss, as in one particular story, 'Alopecia', can bring tragedy. On the other hand, in 'Threnody', a women's commune can be gently mocked, and the failings of the leading characters are human rather than masculine. Fay Weldon's observation is always wonderfully acute and Watching Me, Watching You is dominated throughout by her humour and intensity of purpose, giving to these stories a marvellous strength and unity.
And my own comment
Eleven short stories by feminist Fay:
1. Christmas Tree
2. Breakages
3. Alopecia
4. Man with no eyes
5. Holy Stones
6. Threnody
7. Angel, all innocence
8. Spirit of the house
9. Watching me, watching you
10. Geoffrey and the Eskimo child
11. Weekend
Rather pleasant to read. I'm a self proclaimed feminist as well, but still I feel sorry for the men who ever read this book, because the male characters are all evil...
Journal Entry 2 by AnonymousFinder at - In de trein, Zuid-Holland Netherlands on Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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