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Jun 20, 2000 | ISBN 9780375702365 Buy
Apr 17, 2013 | ISBN 9780307763624 Buy
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Jun 20, 2000 | ISBN 9780375702365
Apr 17, 2013 | ISBN 9780307763624
With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God’s creative powers through pet tortoises.
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson’s delectable first novel, announced the arrival of ‘a fresh voice with a mind behind it,’ as Muriel Spark has written. ‘She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides’–and her reputation and accomplishment have grown with each of her five subsequent novels.Now, with her first collection–seventeen stories that span her entire career–Jeanette Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. Whether transporting us to bizarre new geog-raphies–a world where sleep is illegal, an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewelry made of coal–or revealing so perfectly, so exactly, the joy and pain of owning a brand-new dog, she proves herself a master of the short form.For her readers, a celebration–and for everyone else, a wonderful introduction to this highly original and consistently daring writer, who has become ‘one of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers’ (San Francisco Chronicle)
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
"A brilliant collection. . .speculative, philosophical and surreal. . . . You will fall in love with this writer." —The Baltimore Sun"Winterson is a grand warrior. . .a modern writer, a modern thinker. . . . Her images are fantastic." —Los Angeles Times"Like a literary periscope scanning island after island in the sea of Winterson’s imagination." —Boston Book Review"That Winterson is an original and important writer is surely by now beyond question. . . . One of the pleasures of this collection is that it allows the reader to map the gradual evolution of her writing." —The Boston Globe
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