Leader of the Band

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From Publishers Weekly In prose as lively and runaway as her heroine, Weldon ( The Hearts and Minds of Men ) weighs love and lust against the impulse to have children. "Starlady Sandra" is a popular TV astronomer, famous for discovering the new planet, Athena. At 42, childless, and married to a conventional barrister, Sandra runs off with Mad Jack, trumpet-playing hero of the title, after a single, tempestuous sexual encounter. On a gig in France, Sandra and Jack spend every spare moment in bed--or any approximation--continually "remaking the universe." But over the buzz of sexual gratification, Sandra hears the beat of her biological clock, and reconsiders her origins--her mother is institutionalized for insanity while her father, a Nazi doctor, was tried at Nuremberg and executed for his experiments--and her related decision not to procreate. The novel, to which three short stories written by Sandra are appended, is, like its protagonist, a little scattered, but is vintage Weldon nonetheless--a wickedly delightful explication of those female truths she bares so well. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more

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Product Details:

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult; 1st American ed edition (June 19, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670824402
• ISBN-13: 03
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• #2941968 in Books > Literature & Fiction

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