Dirty Weekend - Softcover
"This is the story of Bella, who woke up one morning and realised she'd had enough..."
So begins Dirty Weekend, one woman's tale of fear and revenge. Dark, violent and brutally funny, Dirty Weekend was hugely controversial when first published in 1991. Although it polarised the critics on release, it went on to be translated into thirteen languages, became a UK and European bestseller, and was made into a feature film
by Michael Winner, director of Death Wish.
Blackly comic, hugely violent and wholly original, it still retains its impact today.
So begins Dirty Weekend, one woman's tale of fear and revenge. Dark, violent and brutally funny, Dirty Weekend was hugely controversial when first published in 1991. Although it polarised the critics on release, it went on to be translated into thirteen languages, became a UK and European bestseller, and was made into a feature film
by Michael Winner, director of Death Wish.
Blackly comic, hugely violent and wholly original, it still retains its impact today.
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About the Author:
Helen Zahavi is a novelist and screenwriter and was born and educated in London. Her father came to England with the Polish Army during the Second World War, and her mother's parents came from Odessa. She worked as a Russian translator before becoming a writer, and has spent several years living in Paris.
Review:
A dark and brilliant book - James Runcie, The Daily Telegraph
An act of writing that is avant-garde in the literal sense. A literary turning-point - Naomi Wolf, New Statesman & Society
Zahavi's hideous, kinky little revenge-novel - Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
If Oscar Wilde had written Death Wish, it would read like Dirty Weekend. This is a brave, brilliant and beautiful book. I wish I had written it - Julie Burchill
Glinting, rapier wit - Publishers Weekly
A slim, sharp stiletto of a book - Jim McClellan, i-D Magazine
Taut prose, black humour and a confrontational style make this a challenging and terrifyingly funny first novel - Time Out
I can still remember the visceral shock I felt as a young single womanreading Helen Zahavi's first novel, which burst upon a rather staidearly-1990s U.K. literary scene like a firework. Every woman who hasever had a fantasy about taking revenge on a man can identify with itsheroine - Louise Doughty, Wall Street Journal
As a piece of stylised thuggery - mordant humour run riot - the effect is stunning - Marie Claire
An act of writing that is avant-garde in the literal sense. A literary turning-point - Naomi Wolf, New Statesman & Society
Zahavi's hideous, kinky little revenge-novel - Salman Rushdie, The Independent on Sunday
If Oscar Wilde had written Death Wish, it would read like Dirty Weekend. This is a brave, brilliant and beautiful book. I wish I had written it - Julie Burchill
Glinting, rapier wit - Publishers Weekly
A slim, sharp stiletto of a book - Jim McClellan, i-D Magazine
Taut prose, black humour and a confrontational style make this a challenging and terrifyingly funny first novel - Time Out
I can still remember the visceral shock I felt as a young single womanreading Helen Zahavi's first novel, which burst upon a rather staidearly-1990s U.K. literary scene like a firework. Every woman who hasever had a fantasy about taking revenge on a man can identify with itsheroine - Louise Doughty, Wall Street Journal
As a piece of stylised thuggery - mordant humour run riot - the effect is stunning - Marie Claire
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- PublisherFlamingo
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0006544657
- ISBN 13 9780006544654
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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