{"product_id":"9781480412651","title":"Watching Me, Watching You: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eFay Weldon’s first short-story collection features her trademark themes of feminism, sisterhood, and domestic livelihood, where the ties that bind can also draw blood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove, loss, and the ever-changing sexual battlefield are the themes of this early anthology by master storyteller Fay Weldon: In “Christmas Tree,” the adulterous playwright hero embarks on a quest for true love, perhaps the most self-deceiving state of all; “Breakages” explores the fragility of married life as a miserly vicar’s infertile wife contemplates his much-darned socks amid ghostly visitations; the loss of hair and female friendship are brought to poignant life in “Alopecia,” while religion becomes an excuse for infidelity in “Holy Stones”; a holiday game of Monopoly reveals the widening holes in the fabric of a family in “Man with No Eyes”; and an old house and its inhabitants are haunted by doomed love in the title story. By turns humorous, ironic, and tragic, \u003ci\u003eWatching Me, Watching You \u003c\/i\u003epresents Fay Weldon at her most witty, original, and courageous.","brand":"Open Road Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125499150576,"sku":"9781480412651","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781480412651_p0.jpg?v=1763619257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781480412651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}