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Joanna May is the beautiful, passive, perfect better half of nuclear businessman extraordinaire, Carl May - until he discovers her with her Egyptologist fan, in the sacred haven of his own private art gallery. The fan is murdered, Joanna disgraced, the matrimony dissolved. But something with their union, "a ritual performed in the presence of my beauty, his electricity," will not die. Piqued by the hint Carl cannot contain, the sixty-year old Joanna discovers the demonic test he and her gynecologist carried out thirty years back. Raised an only child, Joanna finds four sisters as lovely as she; convinced that she's childless, she meets four daughters uncannily like her, yet absolutely different, knowing nothing at all - until they're thirty - of each other's existence. Jane, Gina, Julie and Alice. And Joanna. Included in this, though their genes are similar, they celebrate the bewildering selection of pursuits, lifestyles, alternatives open to the new era of women, pioneered by the old. A scintillating, exuberant, ruthlessly serious observer of her time, Fay Weldon leaps - not so far - into another that makes specific identify infinitely more elusive; another, nonetheless, where female solidarity and female compassion (for the guy) are suitable. Carl May will come to a nasty end, of his own inimitably daring design. Yet something of him - the opposite of technology and calculation - is preserved, appreciated even, by the four times more robust, four times wiser, four times more ample Joanna. In The Cloning of Joanna May, Weldon has created a Shakespearean story of puzzled identities, an enthralling book about guy control and female power, and about a era of women for whom almost anything is possible.
