Essay On The Hearts And Lives Of Men By Fay Weldon

The Hearts and Lives of Young Men is an adventure story where love for once triumphs over lust. The novel is fast paced and keeps readers engaged in the story. The pace never looses momentum. The wit in this particular novel is razor sharp. This is an insight to Fay Weldon's life. (Weldon Back cover)

The Hearts and Lives of Men, a novel by Fay Weldon, tells the story of Nell, a lost child, and all the circumstances surrounding both her disappearance from her home and her subsequent return many years later. The story starts off with Nell meeting her parents, Clifford and Helen.

The couple fell in love at first sight years ago. They quickly married each other, had Nell, and divorced quickly after. Her Father is an art dealer and her mother is an artist’s daughter. The two parents have a custody battle over the Nell, the end result being that she is lost in a plane crash when Clifford attempts to kidnap her. (Weldon)

Eventually, Nell finds her way back to her family. But along the way the she encounters a number of characters. The characters include an ex-priest who is under the influence of a hallucinogenic drug called LSD, two eighty-year-old Satanists, a black insurance investigator, and a chain-smoking kidnapper. Each of

She would never disavow that term because she believes it would seem as if she disowned it for the wrong reasons. According to her own self, she stated that many feminists wouldn't consider her a feminist at all. Many non-feminists would believe that she was indeed a feminist. She wanted to move in and out of the feminist mainstream. Fay Weldon would just look forward to a time when the word will be meaningless. She believes that the word feminist is completely meaningless now because society has become so feminist in a way that what seemed like a controversial idea back then, is very common in today’s society.