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Winterson Jeanette
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belongingfor love, identity, home, and a mother.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
The Passion
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Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, a simple French soldier, who follows Napoleon from glory to Russian ruin; and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has gambled away her heart. In Venice’s compound of carnival, chance, and darkness, the pair meet their singular destiny.
In her unique and mesmerizing voice, Winterson blends reality with fantasy, dream, and imagination to weave a hypnotic tale with stunning effects.
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else."
Written on the Body
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.
The Battle of the Sun
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Jack is the chosen one, the Radiant Boy the Magus needs in order to perfect the alchemy that will transform London of the 1600s into a golden city. But Jack isn’t the kind of boy who will do what he is told by an evil genius, and soon he’s battling to save London in an epic and nail-biting adventure featuring dragons, knights and Queen Elizabeth I.
Tanglewreck
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Something frightening is happening with time. One moment, a time tornado rages through the streets of London, and those caught up in its path vanish without a trace. The next moment a woolly mammoth is seen lumbering along the banks of the River Thames. At the center of these bizarre time warps is a house called Tanglewreck, which is home to eleven-year-old Silver, her bony and bad-tempered aunt, Mrs Rokabye, and a mysterious clock known as the Timekeeper. Silver doesn't understand exactly what the Timekeeper does, but when two sinister figures come looking for it, she knows instinctively that she must guard it with her life.
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Midsummer Nights edited by Jeanette Winterson - Times Online
Times Online, UK - May 24, 2009
Midsummer Nights edited by Jeanette WintersonPossibly, yet as Jeanette Winterson comments in her introduction to Midsummer Nights, a selection of stories commissioned to celebrate Glyndebourne's 75th anniversary, opera's “necessary synthesis of words and music” makes it “potent”.
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MIDSUMMER NIGHTS EDITED BY JEANETTE WINTERSON (Quercus £18.99) - Daily Mail
Daily Mail, UK - May 07, 2009
Daily MailMIDSUMMER NIGHTS EDITED BY JEANETTE WINTERSON (Quercus £18.99)Published to celebrate 75 years of the Glyndebourne Festival of Opera and boasting a seriously impressive line-up of authors, the stories in this collection are all inspired by the plots of operas. A great idea, in theory, although I've never read so
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Observations: Come to the butterfly ball - Independent
Independent, UK - May 15, 2009
Observations: Come to the butterfly ballAmong the non-visual contributions, Lembit Opik has written a verse comparing the flight of the butterfly to the unpredictability of life, Jeffrey Archer sent in an ode written by somebody else (plus ça change) and Jeanette Winterson summed up the
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Art shows struggle of Panay's Tumandok - Inquirer.net
Inquirer.net, Philippines - May 18, 2009
Art shows struggle of Panay's TumandokWriter Jeanette Winterson says the word objects in “art objects” is a verb and not a noun, and art objects to all form of annihilation, daily death and injustice. In this collection, the Tumandok people reaffirm their dignity.
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Bookends: Bookfinder.com ranks literary world's worst moms - San Jose Mercury News
San Jose Mercury News, USA - May 07, 2009
Bookends: Bookfinder.com ranks literary world's worst moms7 on their list; the rest of their maternal miscreants, in ascending order of culpability, are the mother in "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" by Jeanette Winterson; Sarah in Tom Perrotta's novel "Little Children"; Gertrude in Shakespeare's "Hamlet";
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