'...I met the sad menopausee and offered her, at the flick of a switch, a return of beauty, youth, and desire. And - after all, I'm no stinge-merchant - power and money as well. Why not? If a man, such as Dr Faustus, was offered such commodities by myself... why not a woman, in this age of equality?'
Emma Tennant's ingenious modern-day reworking of the Faust legend describes a young woman's dark discovery of just what befell her kindly long-lost grandmother.
'Brilliant'. Penelope Fitzgerald, Evening Standard
'An elegant and bitter story... an angry diagnosis of consumerism, pollution, wealth, poverty and war...' Times Literary Supplement
'It is a masterpiece. Or, as the Devil himself might say, one hell of a book.' Daily Mail
- ISBN10 0571168604
- ISBN13 9780571168606
- Publish Date May 1992 (first published 22 April 1992)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 3 December 1998
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 144
- Language English