Condom catastrophes put New Age
abstention on the agenda for the
protagonists of Chastity, cynical
publishing cartels gang up to force a post- modernist to eat her collages in Humility Fortitude grits her teeth wonderfully and holds her marriage together in the face of all the odds, while devious Patience plots quietly for her just reward. Charity as good breast and bad mother flickers
obsessively through a narrative of convent-school girlhood, and Generosity gives everything away only to find that the ultimate power rests with the one who
remains empty-handed Justice
meanwhile is black and militant and in love
with white mission-worker Mercy
Seven women writers sharpen their
satirical pens and take virtue as their target. The result is a wicked delight