A Hard Time to Be a Father: Stories
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ISBN: 1582340110 / Publisher: Bloomsbury USA, December 1998
A collection of nineteen stories explore the lives of contemporary lovers, parents, and families wrestling with change
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Fay Weldon won the Silver Pen Award for her last collection of stories, Wicked Women.Here are nineteen sparkling new tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and would-be fathers; of houses ancient and modern. Stories, in fact, to enlighten us to the true and timeless nature of the human condition, in this new age of self-knowledge.
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