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Leader of the Band: A Novel Kindle Edition

by Fay Weldon (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Fay Weldon mines the fields of sexuality, procreation, and astronomy in her liberating novel about the ongoing quest for self-fulfillment
Sandra Harris—wife, astronomer (known for discovering the planet Athena), television phenomenon, and “professional searcher after truth”—has had an epiphany. She leaves her boring attorney husband and runs off with Mad Jack Stubbs, her trumpet-playing lover, and his groupie entourage, for a tour of Southern France. Pursued by her husband, Mad Jack’s wife, and the paparazzi, Sandra lives entirely for the moment—and great sex. In between, she ponders her past (institutionalized mother, Nazi war criminal father) while trying to ignore the deafening tick of her biological clock. Fay Weldon’s novel is a mirror held up to the face of its reader; an illuminating, reflective tale about sex, ambition, and the love that makes fools of us all.

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From Publishers Weekly

TV astronomer Starlady Sandra flees conventional married life out of lust for trumpet player Mad Jack. According to PW , this is a bit scattered but nonetheless "vintage Weldon . . . a wickedly delightful explication of those female truths she bares so well."
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“Weldon writes as if she were Virginia Woolf and Roseanne Arnold joined at the hip. She is literary, well-read, totally in control, sharp as a needle and off the wall.” —Mirabella “In prose as lively and runaway as her heroine, Weldon weighs love and lust against the impulse to have children. The novel . . . is vintage Weldon . . . a wickedly delightful explication of those female truths she bares so well.” —Publishers Weekly “This cheeky little novel reads like a postcard from Weldon gone on holiday, frolicking with fiction, dashing off diatribes on everything from cosmology to sex.” —Kirkus Reviews