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Claire MessudClaire Messud's new novel, The Woman Upstairs, is fiercely intelligent and urgently intimate, written with precision, humor, and an incredible... Continue »
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Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body

sunpup, September 1, 2011

Told from the interesting perspective of a genderless narrator, this story follows a lover through the personal account of love found, lost and...
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Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body

sunpup, July 22, 2011

I found myself wanting to savor, remember and use many of her poetic phrases. Winterson has a beautiful way with language. Her deliberate ambiguity of the main character's gender and in the final scene is brilliant!
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