Auto Da Fay (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802141422)

Auto da Fay is an autobiography from a wickedly funny writer who never fails to amuse. Fay Weldon, one of England's best selling and most celebrated authors, looks back on her life as wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, antifeminist, and bon vivant in this frank and funny memoir. Born Franklin Birkinshaw in 1931, Fay spent her youth in New Zealand with her sister, mother, and grandmother before moving to England. Later Fay had to scrape by as an unwed mother in London, trying marriage, then advertising, and then writing on her own. She closes her memoir as she drops what will be her first success, a television play, into a mailbox on her way to the hospital to give birth. Riddled with Weldon's customarily fierce opinions, this frank and absorbing memoir is vintage Fay. An icon to many, a thorn in the flesh to others, she has never failed to excite, madden, or interest. With this engaging autobiography, she has finally decided to turn her authorial wit and keen eye on herself.


Author: Fay Weldon
ISBN-10: 0802141420
ISBN-13: 9780802141422
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 05/06/2004
Pages: 366
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.58w x 0.99d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/27/2004 pg. 20
New York Review of Books 03/20/2014 pg. 12