The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon

The Hearts and Lives of Men by Fay Weldon

Love at first sight - that old thing Helen and Clifford looked at one another.something quivered in the air between them and, for good or bad, Nell began.

The witty, mischievous and supremely artful Fay Weldon announces on the first page of The Hearts and Lives of Men that she has written a love story and give away its ending - happy. It is a love story, though, with all the obstacles, both devilish and divine - a tale of innocence corrupted and selfishness reformed.

Helen Lally is 22, the stunning daughter of an impoverished artist whose fame and fortune will soon be made. Woe to her for catching the eye of Clifford Wexford, a 35-year-old art dealer, rapaciously ambitious, eminently eligible and careless of all lives but his town. In the space of nine months in the ever-so-swinging 60's, Helen and Clifford meet, fall instantly in love, marry and product the enchanting Nell.

But there the want changes hands, as it will, time and again, in the course of this seductively high-spirited move. Someone, somewhere, must be wicked, says the narrator, or the world wouldn't be in the state it's in. Clifford falls prey to a scheming heiress; the perfect marriage ends in divorce; and little Nell, due to her parents' fecklessness and avarice, is lost. Lost to them, that is, until years later, when they have learned enough to deserve her.

Written in a writer's prime, in a state of grace, The Hears of Lives of Men is a modern fable for grown-ups. Good triumphs over evil; true love outlasts lust and greed; and if some people are beyond redemption, the justice they are dealt is perfectly crated and deeply satisfying. As is Fay Weldon's splendid new novel.

Fay Weldon was raised in a household of women in New Zealand and produced four sons of her own, as if to balance the gender count. After earning degrees in economics and psychology at the University of Edinburgh, she survived a decade of odd jobs and hard times, then began writing film and television scripts and fiction. Among her 18 novels and short-story collections are Trouble, Life Force, The Cloning of Joanna May, Darcy's Utopia, The Shrapnel Academy, The Life and Loves of a She-devil, Leader of the Band, Puffball, and The Heart of the Country, winner of the 1989 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Fay Weldon lives in London and Somerset, England.

SKU	CIN0670820989A
ISBN 13	9780670820986
ISBN 10	0670820989
Title	The Hearts and Lives of Men
Author	Fay Weldon
Condition	Well read
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Random House India
Year published	1988-03-31
Number of pages	357
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