- Hardcover: 244 pages
- Publisher: Newstar Pr (January 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0787107328
- ISBN-13: 978-0787107321
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
Like a literary meringue, Lette's newest (after The Llama Parlor, 1991) is light, fluffy and scarcely memorable. Madeline (Maddy) Wolfe, a free-spirited six-foot Australian with cropped red hair and a nose ring, is giving birth in an inner-city London hospital. As she goes through the agonies of childbirth, she looks back on her affair with Alexander Drake, a wildly popular TV zoologist. Maddy first meets Alex in Sydney, where he is investigating the sex lives of giant cleaner wrasses. Deeply in lust, she follows him to London. Maddy settles into his flat and takes a course at an upscale cooking school. There, over the haggis and kidney pie, she meets her soon-to-be best friend, Gillian Cassells, who's honing the skills she'll need to catch "Marquis Right." Upon Alex's return, Maddy finds herself thrown to the social lions, for whom a swell evening out might include a sneak peak at Robert Maxwell's autopsy. In the midst of her misery, Maddy learns that Alex is married?and that she is pregnant. Lette writes a lively prose, but her wit, raw and frenetic, is probably an acquired taste.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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'Buy this book - give it to every woman of child-bearing age you know. She will be maternally grateful. It is funny and profoundly moving' SUE TOWNSEND
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
A Disappointment,
By Laura (Singapore) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
Everyone told me how funny this book was but I didn't laugh once! I thought the main character was a bimbo who at her age, should have known better. It was hard to feel anything for her apart from pity at her being so thick!All the references to Britain being cold, miserable and full of hard hearted toffs I thought were very narrow minded, and sounded suspiciously like Kathy Lette had done the typical visitor to Britain's trick of never leaving London! It hasn't inspired me to read any more of her books, although if I come across one for 10p at a jumble sale back in the UK, I might buy it out of curiosity!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great in every way,
By jumpy1 (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
Witty, truthful, troublesome, entertaining - this book deserved its success. I love how we find out about the main character gradually, as her experiences unfold, so that it continually makes one question who this person really is. Kathy Lette is a tremendously talented writer with so much to say, and so hilariously, it's hard to believe one person came up with it all. I relived some of the best and worst parts of my life while reading this book and eventually I just had to laugh at myself, as I laughed with the characters! Suffice it to say Ms. Lette tells this young woman's story, faithfully showing life's light and dark sides, and carrying it all through to a truthful conclusion, without degenerating into moral platitude. And never, ever losing her brilliant sense of humor.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kathy Lette is the best thing to happen to recent literature,
By aea32@penn.com (Indiana, Pa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Foetal Attraction (Paperback)
Kathy Lette demonstrates absolute mastery of the English language in both FOETAL ATTRACTION and MAD COWS. She illustrates, for us, the masochism of particular women and their ability to overcome the abuse they suffer at the hands of misleading men with blinding realism. Best of all she exposes the illusoriness of the priveledged left. It's too bad she's not a millionairess from the merits of her writing!
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