This new novel is several kinds of love story with multiple happy endings-but the author still makes her readers sweat.

Rhode Island Blues , by Fay Weldon. Atlantic Monthly Press, 325 pages, $24.

Critics and readers alike tend to put Fay Weldon’s fiction in a box. “Barbed,” “wicked,” “enraged,” “unsparing,” “iconoclastic”-this litany of terms Read More