Little Sisters
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: dj and fep clipped;
What begins as a seemingly ordinary evening quickly spirals into a darkly comic dissection of power, desire, and class in Fay Weldon's sharp and unsettling Little Sisters. Set over the course of a single night at an opulent party hosted by the wealthy Victor Laker, the novel chronicles the intertwined fates of two young women — Elsa and Gemma — as they navigate the treacherous social currents of 1970s Britain, where men hold the purse strings and women are too often treated as decorative accessories. Weldon, one of Britain's most incisive satirists, writes with a scalpel's precision, cutting through the veneer of respectability to expose the quiet brutalities that govern women's lives. Her prose is witty, urgent, and laced with a cold feminist fury that refuses sentimentality, drawing the reader into a world where every social interaction carries a hidden transaction. Little Sisters stands as a compelling testament to Weldon's gift for rendering the personal as deeply, disturbingly political — a novel that leaves you questioning every polite smile and generous offer.
Author: Fay Weldon
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: dj and fep clipped;
What begins as a seemingly ordinary evening quickly spirals into a darkly comic dissection of power, desire, and class in Fay Weldon's sharp and unsettling Little Sisters. Set over the course of a single night at an opulent party hosted by the wealthy Victor Laker, the novel chronicles the intertwined fates of two young women — Elsa and Gemma — as they navigate the treacherous social currents of 1970s Britain, where men hold the purse strings and women are too often treated as decorative accessories. Weldon, one of Britain's most incisive satirists, writes with a scalpel's precision, cutting through the veneer of respectability to expose the quiet brutalities that govern women's lives. Her prose is witty, urgent, and laced with a cold feminist fury that refuses sentimentality, drawing the reader into a world where every social interaction carries a hidden transaction. Little Sisters stands as a compelling testament to Weldon's gift for rendering the personal as deeply, disturbingly political — a novel that leaves you questioning every polite smile and generous offer.