The Life and Loves of a She Devil Fay Weldon Author

This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it . . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage l... Read more

This is not a book for everyone, but its admirers are vigorously enthusiastic. For example:Rhoda Koenig in New York Magazine, who calls it . . . a novel of blazingly hot revenge, one that amply illustrates the saying about heaven having no rage like love turned to hate, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. Or Rosalyn Drexler, who said on the front page of The New York Times Book Review, It affords a scintillating, mindboggling, vicarious thrill for any reader who has ever fantasized dishing out retribution for one wrong or another.Or Carol E. Rinzler, who wrote on The Washington Post Book World's front page, . . . what makes this a powerfully funny and oddly powerful book is the energy of the language and of the intellect that conceived it, an energy that vibrates off the pages and that makes SHE-DEVIL as exceptional a book in the remembering as in the reading . . . . a small, mad masterpiece. Less