the one phrase he consistently heard from all was, "Have a nice day." Sammy's confidence grew, and with it his hoipes for a decent future it appeared that his book would make he and Zara financially secure. The staff at his hotel, Clodagh Jenson, Sammy's American publicist Joanie, the people interviewing him.all treated him kindly. The man at the Customs desk wished him a nice day, as did his taxi driver, who also told him that New York was the friendliest city in the world. Sammy is surprised at how friendly every American he met was. Nervously, Sammy goes to America alone, carrying with him Zara's dire warnings about the untrustworthy and unfriendly Americans - an opinion that Zara had had reinforced by her influential well-traveled, and opinionated friend Tess. Sammy never realized how hen-pecked he was, nor how much Zara dominated him. Sammy's wife, Zara - whom Sammy relies on for everything, especially advice and courage - had intended to accompany him but her mother fell ill at the last moment. Clodagh was a lesbian and an ardent feminist, who openly said she supported potential best-sellers such as Sammy's in order to afford to publish less profitable, more radical books. Women Weeping has had incredible sales both in Sammy's native England and in America, causing Clodagh Jansen, Sammy's American editor, to arrange an American book tour, featuring Sammy on most of the top American television interview shows in the hopes of pushing sales even higher. "Have a Nice Death" by Antonia Fraser (first published in Fiction, 1983 reprinted in Frasewr's collection Jemima Shore's First Case, and Other Stories, 1986 reprinted several other times, including in A Century of British Mystery and Suspense, edited by Anne Perry, 2000)Ĭasper Milquetoast Sammy Luke is a mousy little author who has finally made it (sort of) big with his sixth novel, Women Weeping, a masochistic, violent, and misogenystic work complete unlike anything he had written before.
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