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The Cloning of Joanna May

by Fay Weldon
Patricia Hodge
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An astonishing novel that probes into the strange world of genetic engineering. Joanna May thought herself unique, indivisible – until one day, to her hideous shock, she discovered herself to be five: though childless she was a mother; though an only child she was surrounded by sisters young enough to be her daughers – Jane, Julie, Gina and Alice, the clones of Joanna May. How will they withstand the shock of first meeting? And what of the avenging Carl, Joanna's former husband and the clones' creator: will he take revenge for his wife's infidelity and destroy her sisters one by one? In this astonishing novel, Fay Weldon weaves a web of paradox quite awesome in its cunning. Probing into the strange world of genetic engineering, The Cloning of Joanna May raises frightening questions about our identity as individuals – and provides some startling answers. Funny, serious, revolutionary, this is the work of a master storyteller at the height of her powers.

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    July 7, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9780007449545
      • File size: 77223 KB
      • Duration: 02:40:52

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 4, 1991
      Joanna, a beautiful and bored 60-year-old, discovers that her ex-husband cloned one of her eggs 30 years earlier and that the four resulting clones are currently undergoing crises brought on by men. ``With characteristic antic energy, Weldon offers another penetrating look at our urges to sex and parenthood, love, power and revenge,'' said PW.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Dark humor and searing psychological insight are delivered full strength through West's commendable restraint. D.J. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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