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Title Statement | Before the war / Fay Weldon. |
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Author | Weldon, Fay |
Publication | New York: St. Martin's Press,2017.©2016 |
Edition | First U.S. edition. |
Extent of Item | 298 pages |
ISBN | 125012123X 9781250121233 |
Other Number | 3007941 |
Summary | "1922. Vivien is twenty-four and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and--almost worse--intelligent. At nearly six feet tall, she is known unkindly by her family as "the giantess." Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic gentleman publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another man's child and will die in childbirth in just a few months... Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate, along with that of London between World War I and World War II. This is a city fizzing with change, full of flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked soldiers, and aristocrats clinging onto the past. Inventive, warm, playful, and full of Weldon's trademark ironic edge, Before the War is a spellbinding novel from one of the best writers of our time"--Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Single women--Fiction |
Man-woman relationships--Fiction | |
Pregnancy--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
By Location | London (England)--Fiction |
Great Britain--Fiction--Social life and customs--1918-1945 | |
By Genre | Historical fiction |