Donna and the Fatman

by Helen Zahavi

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1862300453
• ISBN13: 9781862300453
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Anchor Books
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant! Helen Zahavi is utterly original!

Brett Easton Ellis and Quentin Tarantino have created a world of surrealism and dark humor in their work. I hadn't read a book with such subjects written by a woman until I discovered Helen Zahavi. Zahavi writes novels with a great deal of rage -- rage against abusive men, gang leaders, etc. She showed her full potential with Dirty Weekend -- one of my favorite novels -- and has taken a leap forward with Donna and the Fatman.This novel, like Dirty Weekend, has a recurring theme: revenge. Set in the graphic life of London's criminal warfare, it introduces Henry -- also known as the fatman -- a notorious gang leader and Donna, the object of the fatman's desire, or rather, the object of the fatman's need to take of advantage of his power. Donna is obligated to free her boyfriend's debt by sleeping with Henry. At the last minute, however, she changes her mind. She steals money from Henry and escapes. But Henry, of course, won't let her get away with that, and that's when the story takes some interesting twists and turns. Donna and the Fatman is a tour de force of dark humor and gorgeous language. I strongly urge you to read it!