Praxis [Paperback]

Fay Weldon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 2, 1993

PRAXIS is a modern classic: the portrait of a woman set in time, yet timeless. We see her first as the innocent Praxis Duveen, aged five; watch her, as the men in her life come and go, through many drastic changes in fortune and circumstance. Until, from a prison both psychological and real, she emerges as Patty Fletcher, considered as bad as a woman can be and yet her own mistress.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Weldon writes with elegance and drive, delivering sentences like pellets from a BB gun—wry, pithy, rapid-fire."
—Newsweek

"Dazzling—pointing up the mad underside of our sexual politics with a venomous accuracy for which wit is far too mild a word"
—The New York Times Book Review

"Weldon''s most directly feminist novel … A narrative that convinces, horrifies, and entertains"
—Library Journal

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

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 taking 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 eighteen 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 Fiction Award. Fay Weldon lives in London and Somerset.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square (December 2, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340595809
• ISBN-13: 978-0340595800
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,591,571 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, October 20, 2004

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Mazecat (Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Praxis (King Penguin) (Paperback)

A great read and something to think about. It's very unsettling at times but none the less very compelling. I first read this book about 12 years ago and have read it twice since. It's one of those books that just stays with you.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Read this and enjoy, December 11, 2007

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SA Veenis (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Praxis (Paperback)

Praxis bij Fay Weldon is as much light as it is unsetteling. It referes to old knowlegde as well as to new adventures. To a need to be secure as well as the need to be free and uncommitted. It's not the story that's so special (an old woman looking back on her life, how she grew up (bizar indeed) the 'choices' she made) but the way it's written is special, almost poetry. And though Fay Weldon breaths seventy's moral and the feminisme of last century, stangely to me the story is not out of date, although I read it first 20 years ago.

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What was I thinking?, June 2, 2004

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L. Dunn (Paris, TN United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Praxis (Hardcover)

Fay Weldon is one of those authors I love to hate. I keep reading them just to see how bad they really are. Praxis is such a quirky, odd character that you keep reading just to see how bizarre things can really get. It goes beyond my definition of bizarre, but don't take my word for it...read it for yourself!
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