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Grace, fresh out of jail from trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife, Doris, falls in love with Walter, an artist who recently painted a portrait of Lady Juliet wearing a Bulgari necklace with which Doris becomes obsessed.
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The Bulgari Connection finds Fay Weldon on familiar ground, chronicling the pains and pleasures of the battle of the sexes, in this enjoyably funny novel. Set in glamorous contemporary London, Weldon's novel begins with the proverbial love triangle. Wealthy, dissatisfied self-made businessman Barley Salt leaves his frumpy wife Grace for the glamorous TV presenter Doris Dubois. Grace concedes that her husband "has aged better than I have", and that Doris "is 23 years younger than I am. She is slimmer than I am, and more clever". Grace tries but fails to run Doris over, and for her pains is sentenced to three years in jail. However, when she meets the struggling young artist Walter Wells, with his preference for "the blown rose not the bud", Grace literally has a new lease of life. As her life takes on new meaning, Barley and Doris start to lose control of their own self-centred lives.
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The Bulgari Connection is a fast-moving, readable novel of greed, middle-aged deceit and love, but feels like it was written in the 1980s, not the early 21st century. Weldon's attempts at a very English version of magic realism evoke strong echoes of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray (as the novel itself admits). This is effortless Weldon, but many of her fans will feel that it is marking time rather than breaking new ground. --Jerry Brotton
‘Our most intelligent and hard-hitting feminist novelist today’ Daily Mail
‘Weldon is a gifted tease of a writer.’
Sunday Times
‘Prolific and provocative, Fay Weldon shines brightest in the league table of British women novelists.’ Time Out
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- PublisherAtlantic Monthly Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0871137968
- ISBN 13 9780871137968
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages190
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