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Auto Da Fay : An Autobiography
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Fay Weldon
"From life as a poor unwed mother in London to becoming one of England's bestselling authors and most popular exports, Fay Weldon has crammed more than most into her years. Wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, winer and diner - Fay leads us through her peripatetic life with barely a role she can't illuminate." "Born Franklin Birkinshaw in 1931, Fay sp
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Hardcover
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366 pages
Published
August 2nd 2002
by Key Porter Books
(first published 2001)
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Things get quite rough for Fay Weldon, and her mother, her sister, her grandmother, her aunty, and their children in this book, but they battle on. Trying to solve the puzzle of men, at the source of all the trouble, Weldon makes a couple of bad calls early on, and lives to fight another day, to the cheers of once were lost girls the world over.
What's clear is that before she became a writer Weldon stored up an immense stock of experience: New Zealand in the thirties and forties, post-war London ...more
What's clear is that before she became a writer Weldon stored up an immense stock of experience: New Zealand in the thirties and forties, post-war London ...more
A wonderfully witty account of her eventful life. Particularly enjoyed her account of her eccentric family and the early bohemian set, with more than it's fair share of writers, ratbags and tragic muses. From her childhood in New Zealand in the 1940s and 50's, to her adult life in England. Written with honesty and bravery, her life is framed by a series of identities as she goes through untold transformations and challenges. Solo mother, divorcee, guardian to her nieces. Her working life is a ra
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An interesting autobigoraphy of an interesting person's interesting life. It is wrtten with all the flair of (most) of her novels; just about all of which I have read since her career took off in the sevenites. That is caeer as anovelist. She already held a degree in economics before trying her hand at writting advertising copy (very successfully) before moving on to scriptwriting for drama (also a highly successful venture - think first series of "Upstairs-Downstairs")before her feminist views
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Weldon is a talented author, but I thought the ending of the book was a bit abrupt. When she marries Weldon I think she's saying that writing took over and her personal life was a minor player.
very readable book of an interesting life
Simply stunning. Love Fay Weldon and can't believe I've left it so long to read her autobiography. She is wise and witty and I learned so much from this book.
Since this is a writer's autobiography, I had hoped to get some information about how one becomes a writer. What I found instead was a confessional of someone who should have been in a convent being fitted for a chastity belt. Lesson learned. If your daughter has no self-esteem and will do anything to fit in, keep her away from all men no matter what age or marital status. Not entertaining in the least.
Brilliantly written autobiography. What a life! Interesting to discover how her writing talent was honed in advertising and to learn that she was responsible for so many famous slogans of the sixties and seventies. I prefer her autobiographical writing to her novels.
An incredible story, brilliantly well told. This book took me all the way across the Atlantic and that's my ultimate test for a compulsive read.
Very refreshing with good old dark British humor that I like and it shows that success may come pretty late in life and so what....
Another one I was just getting into and left in my dad's car. Just got it back...
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This book did not encourage me to read her fiction .
I hated this book.
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Fay Weldon CBE is an English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has been associated with feminism. In her fiction, Weldon typically portrays contemporary women who find themselves trapped in oppressive situations caused by the patriarchal structure of British society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Weldon
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