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Probing into the strange world of genetic engineering, The Cloning of Joanna May raises frightening questions about the authors' identity as individuals - and provides some startling answers. 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 ...
Plot Summary. A feminist parable set in an alternative-universe England in the 1980s, British author Fay Weldon’s (born Franklin Birkinshaw) work of satirical speculative fiction, The Cloning of Joanna May (1989), follows 60-year-old Joanna May as she discovers that her husband Carl, a corrupt nuclear power executive, has secretly arranged ...
Penguin Books, $9 (272pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012851-2. 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 ...
Joanna was married to Carl May, a very rich, powerful, and manipulative nuclear energy mogul. They divorced after Joanna had an affair. Ever since then, Carl has made Joanna’s life impossible. 10 years later, she decides to confront him, only to learn he has cloned her.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 July 2010. Fay Weldon's books are always entertaining and insightful and The Cloning Of Joanna May is no exception. The novel focuses on it's protagonist; the beautiful and intelligent Joanna May and it's antagonist; the vengeful and bitter Carl May; Joanna's ex husband. Set in the UK of The 1980s, the novel ...
Weldon's comic-romantic melodrama The Cloning of Joanna May is already painted in broad strokes. The three-hour television dramatization is even broader, though not unwitty, with finely over-the-top performances all round. [PN] links. Internet Movie Database; previous versions of this entry. Internet Archive
The Cloning of Joanna May. Fay Weldon. Collins, 1989 - Cloning - 265 pages. ... It tells the fate of Joanna May, who at the age of 60 discovers that she has been cloned and there are in fact four other versions of herself in existence. From inside the book . What people are saying - Write a review.
