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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.
“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
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“I couldn’t get over the narrator and lack of information that was presented about this person. This is the first book I’ve read where you had to battle the entire story to get any clues on the context you were reading from. I am heterosexual so I was trying to place myself within this story but could not as the intent of the writing is to remain genderless- that push and pull was interesting. Love is love in this book.
I will say that the writing style is extremely enjoyable with levels of self awareness and consciousness that poetically unfold. I wasn’t invested much in the romance or relationships rather the thoughts, explanations, and stream of consciousness that the author presented in the story.”
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“I may be searching for books that speak to me in this fashion for the rest of time. The prose is unbelievable. I felt every emotion alongside these characters with such clarity that they felt like Winterson was digging into hidden parts of me and unearthing so many feelings that have laid hidden and dormant, gave them voice, and said, "These are okay. These are what it is to be human. These are what it is to live. These are beautiful."”
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About Jeanette Winterson
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.
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