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The PowerBook

By Jeanette Winterson

By Jeanette Winterson

By Jeanette Winterson

By Jeanette Winterson

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Part of Vintage International

Paperback $16.00

Oct 09, 2001 | ISBN 9780375725050

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Apr 17, 2013 | ISBN 9780307763617

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    About The PowerBook

    Adding to an already astounding body of work that explores the nature of love and desire, Jeanette Winterson (Sexing the Cherry, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion) presents a stunning novel that probes the boundaries of the Internet.

    Ali writes stories on email for anyone who wants them. She promises “freedom just for one night,” but she does not do so without a warning: the story might change you. Ask for an epic love story and you will get one, but Ali will be cast in it, too, and the lines between the real and imagined may blur. Plucking characters from history and myth, Winterson journeys through time and stops in London, Paris, and Capri, all the while melding the language of love with that of computers. In The PowerBook she has found a brilliant conceit through which to showcase her increasingly bold voice.

    About The PowerBook

    Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you’re prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it.

    The PowerBook reinvents itself as it travels from London to Paris, Capri, and Cyberspace, using fairy tales, contemporary myths, and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love.

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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… More about Jeanette Winterson

    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… More about Jeanette Winterson

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 09, 2001 | 304 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375725050

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Vintage
    Apr 17, 2013 | 304 Pages | ISBN 9780307763617

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    Praise

    “A manifesto for bravery in love…beautiful writing.”–Los Angeles Times

    “Winterson writes about love the way van Gogh painted sun-flowers: lovingly, obsessively, always seeking a fresh way to present the subject.”–Entertainment Weekly

    “Winterson is way ahead of most writers in finding new ways to tell a story.”–San Francisco Chronicle

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