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Summary: A loss of innocence.
Review: An actress, seemingly in a wonderful marriage, gradually learns the truth after her husband dies of a sudden heart attack. She emerges unbowed, if less innocent. The prose is Weldon at her best: simple, but sparkling with sharp edges. While the book reflects Weldon's sardonic view of human relationships, it is light, humorous, and even affirming at the same time. Worst Fears is the opposite of those books with unsatisfactory endings: not only does the plot eventually make sense, but the behavior of the characters, which at times seems contrived, also comes to make complete sense.
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Summary: A loss of innocence.
Review: An actress, seemingly in a wonderful marriage, gradually learns the truth after her husband dies of a sudden heart attack. She emerges unbowed, if less innocent. The prose is Weldon at her best: simple, but sparkling with sharp edges. While the book reflects Weldon's sardonic view of human relationships, it is light, humorous, and even affirming at the same time. Worst Fears is the opposite of those books with unsatisfactory endings: not only does the plot eventually make sense, but the behavior of the characters, which at times seems contrived, also comes to make complete sense.
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Summary: another little gem
Review: fay weldon is the most honest person alive when it comes to describing human nature and the funniest i've ever read. she is like a dose of cold water over the sappy tv sitcom type of books that make the best seller lists. her tart tongue can skewer even the most complacent hypocrite, and the most sanctimounius new-ager. she runs the gamit. she is very funny as she reveals peoples true natures and when the heroine begins to explode in bewliderment and rage, well, who can blame her for stealing her husbands mistress's phone diary and calling up a plumber and instructing her to go to the mistresses house at 600am. trust me a more sancitmounous other woman never existed, and the ending, i wont spoil it for you but it is a satisfying ending. fay weldon, thank you for telling the truth,and in such a funny way!
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Summary: Very enjoyable and quite unnerving!
Review: I have read only 2 or 3 Fay Weldon's and this is definately as good as Puffball which I also really enjoyed. Worst Fears made me feel quite twitchy. Everything seems to be fairly simple when Alexandra's husband, Ned, dies but as the next few days go on an awful catalogue of discoveries unfold. Makes you think that things are not always what they seem.
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Summary: Excellent, but difficult to sympathize
Review: I've read other of Weldon's work and this book is on par. Ireally enjoyed following the main character as she uncovers the events that lead to her husband's death. The real problem I had with the book was that it is about people that make up a nest of vipers that surround the lead character. No one is good or even decent in any way. By the end, you realize that this is also true of the Alexandra herself. While it is fun to follow and the prose is excellent, keep in mind that everyone (and quite literally I mean everyone) in the book turns out to be vicious scum.
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Summary: Alexandria's journey of self-discovery ... painful, poignant
Review: Weldon uses an interesting disjointed story-telling style to expose Alexandra's husband's infidelities. Alexandra, an actor starring in a production of Ibsen's A Doll's House, is summoned home due to forty-nine-year-old Ned's sudden death from a massive heart attack. Alexandra works her way through the devastating realizations that nothing about the marriage was as it seemed to reach her empowered conclusions
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