Ebook {Epub PDF} The Shrapnel Academy by Fay Weldon

 · When a blizzard hits the countryside and traps everyone indoors, the rebellion erupts into bloody warfare throughout the Academy, “a shrine to the ethos of military excellence.” With characters that include a domineering female sergeant, a war-mongering general, a brain-damaged spy, and an idiot-savant arms dealer, Fay Weldon gives us a country house novel replete with sexual atrocity and Brand: Open Road Media. Editions for The Shrapnel Academy: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ) Cited by: 6. Find The Shrapnel Academy by Fay, Weldon at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers.

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Fay Weldon is one of Britain`s most consistently interesting novelists, her writing a quirky blend of realism, satire and fantasy. ''The Shrapnel Academy'' is disagreeably self-righteous, its. When a blizzard hits the countryside and traps everyone indoors, the rebellion erupts into bloody warfare throughout the Academy, a shrine to the ethos of military excellence. With characters that include a domineering female sergeant, a war-mongering general, a brain-damaged spy, and an idiot-savant arms dealer, Fay Weldon gives us a country house novel replete with sexual atrocity and class warfare. Guests apostrophize epic battles, and mutiny is brewing in the servants' quarters at a party given at the Shrapnel Academy, which memorializes Henry Shrapnel, inventor of the exploding cannon ball. The "versatile'' Weldon ``is in her element with this fiendish satire, inviting comparison with Swift's acid condemnation of Homosupposedlysapiens in Gulliver's Travels,'' PW stated.