The Cloning of Joanna May - Hardcover

Weldon, Fay

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670830909 ISBN 13: 9780670830909

Publisher: Viking, 1990

Synopsis

This novel of male control and female power features sixty-year-old Joanna May, divorced for infidelity, who learns that her rich ex-husband has cloned her into four women, all displaying different aspects of Joanna

About this title

About the Author:

FAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original "Upstairs Downstairs, " she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include "Praxis", shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; "The Heart of the Country, " winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; "Worst Fears, " shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and "Wicked Women, " which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.

From AudioFile:

"Dark humor and searing psychological insight are delivered full strength through West's commendable restraint." D.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0670830909
• ISBN 13: 9780670830909
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272