Dirty week end - Softcover

Zahavi, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2266046926 ISBN 13: 9782266046923

Publisher: Presses pocket, 1992

Synopsis

213pages. poche. Broché.

About this title

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Presses pocket
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 2266046926
• ISBN 13: 9782266046923
• Binding: Paperback