In flashback and from the depths of her basement apartment in Earls Court, Esther describes the history of her marital disaster--in between her consumption of chocolate cake, tinned fruit, sweet sherry, and a host of other highcalorie confections. Funny, bizarre, and painful in equal doses, this novel, like her other works Down among the Women and Female Friends, examines the role of womanhood. The time is the mid1960s when sex role stereotypes were being examined and rejected, and The Fat Woman's Joke miraculously reflects the passions, humor, and anger of an era when women's selfanalysis entailed a healthy dose of disruption. Weldon depicts the rage and outrage of that era while examining the interplay of pain and humor that so often characterizes changing romantic relationships.
- ISBN10 0340595779
- ISBN13 9780340595770
- Publish Date 1 December 1993 (first published August 1969)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 8 March 2002
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English