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This is a dazzling tour de force from one of Britain's most inspiring and intelligent novelists today.' - Cosmopolitan \u003cbr\u003e'A crash course in philosophy, religion, politics and idealism, with sexual passion, love and the nature of betrayal thrown in.' - Woman's Journal \u003cbr\u003e'A funny, irreverent, extremely witty book, about women's lot in today's world.' - Irish Press \u003cbr\u003e'Darcy's Utopia is among the most frolicsome of her novels, but it still manages to display her quiet, grave insistence that we change our ways.' - Sunday Times \u003cbr\u003e'She conjures away with her diverse properties - high comedy, political science, black magic as a clever juggler might deal simultaneously with an orange, a football and an inflated balloon.' - Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom Library Journal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the eve of interviewing the fabulous and elusive Eleanor Darcy, journalists Valerie and Hugo meet and shack up in a hotel on the dubious strength of Hugo's credit card. As Eleanor (nee Apricot Smith) expounds her utopian plans for religion, education, sex, and money, their spontaneous passion changes course. Weldon mingles tart social commentary and political satire in a novel that is both somber and very funny. The question and answer format is awkward, however; and the humor is very British. Weldon is the author of plays, nonfiction, and such novels as The Life and Loves of a She-devil. Buy this one where there is demand. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 11\/1\/90.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.\u003cbr\u003eCopyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original \"Upstairs Downstairs, \" she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include \"Praxis\", shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; \"The Heart of the Country, \" winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; \"Worst Fears, \" shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and \"Wicked Women, \" which won the PEN\/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. 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Liffey dreamed for many years, and saw her dream come true one hot Sunday afternoon, in Somerset, in September...A trap closed around her. The getting of the country cottage, not the wanting - that was the trap.'\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard and Liffey, a young married couple, follow their dream of moving out of London to a country cottage in the middle of Somerset. 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Suddenly, however, the past which Isabel had thought safely behind her becomes the source of actual physical danger. With frightening ease, the worlds of political intrigue and murderous conspiracy intrude into the cosiness of her domestic life. Whom can she trust? Man? When she reveals to her husband that she long ago had an affair with a young American senator, a man who is now challenging for the Presidential nomination itself, and that her son is the love-child of that affair, even she cannot foresee the consequences. 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Trisha had been rich and Trisha had been poor, and she knew it was better to be rich. But, even worse, now she was to be stripped of her identity. She is to swap sex, and her very soul, with young, handsome, trendy Peter Watson. She passes him too close upon the stairs, and some might think what happens -- a first in mankind's history -- is an improvement and some might not. Peter's partner Doralee thinks not. Mantrapped is the continuing story of Fay Weldon, writer, mother, daughter, sister, cook, campaigner, juggler of life, time, work and money. Like Trisha she has been rich, and like Trisha she has been poor: like Trisha she has been well and truly man trapped, and -- unlike Trisha -- does not regret one bit. From 1960s London (wild parties, no money) to 1970s Somerset (animals, wild parties, no money) Weldon has lived a life rich in adventure and courage. The things you regret, as she points out, are what you don't do, not what you do. In this vastly entertaining book she argues that in a world in which the writer can no longer hope to be anonymous, it is devious, and indeed dishonourable, to keep yourself out of your own novels. 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Their stop for a jazz gig in France is an interlude haunted in every sense, alternating hysterically between romp and catharsis. Most of the 12 stories in Polaris are more subdued. The title story explores marital and other bonds within the peculiar society of modern submariners. The young bride of \"In the Great War\" finds that she has more in common with her stepdaughters than with her husband. \"The School Run\" neatly inverts some stock sentiments about victims of obsessive love. Unrestrained comedy reigns in the final selection, \"Redundant! Or the Wife's Revenge,\" in which an ill-assorted group engages in a slapstick search for Mr.\/Ms. Right, all in a plastic surgery ward. Diverting, well crafted, and recommended.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Starr E. Smith, Georgetown Univ. 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