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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780802135162 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Winterson’s first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. It’s a love story, too. Winterson’s adaptation of the novel was an internationally acclaimed television drama awarded a BAFTA for best drama and an RTS award in the same year; the Prix Italia; FIPA D’Argent at Cannes for best script; The Golden Gate in San Francisco and an ACE Award at the Los Angeles television festival.
Review:
“An explosively imaginative writer.” –The London Free Press
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“She is a master of her material, a writer [of] great talent.” –Muriel Spark
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“Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language.” –Evening Standard
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“The most interesting writer I have read in twenty years.” –Gore Vidal
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“The overwhelming impression of her work is one of remarkable self-confidence, and she evidently thrives on risk…. As good as Poe: it dares you to laugh and stares you down.” –The New York Review of Books
Synopsis:
Winner of the prestigious Whitbread Prize for best first novel and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for best writer under 35, this modern classic has sold 100,000 copies in the United States. The novel chronicles the life of a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an Evangelical household in the dour, industrial Midlands. Her insistence on listening to the truths of her own heart and mind makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving rite of passage into adulthood.
Synopsis:
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.
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Anaya, September 1, 2006 (view all comments by Anaya)
Winterson's semi-autobiographical and contemporary English novel will captivate and give readers a chance to peer into her bared soul. Though the novel is filled with sexual behavior and nature, it is never once vulgar in the puritanical sense, but beautiful and teaches the readers to celebrate life. The novel explores the heroine's struggles and clashes between life in her home and church and her own identity. Though the novel is partly fictional, Winterson argues that fictional characters give a foray into the reality of the situation in "real life". A literary gem that deserves a special place on the shelf with other Winterson novels.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780802135162
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Grove Press
- Location:
- New York, N.Y.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- England
- Subject:
- Lesbians
- Subject:
- Lesbian
- Subject:
- Teenage girls
- Subject:
- Bildungsromans
- Copyright:
- 1985
- Edition Number:
- 1st American ed.
- Edition Description:
- American
- Series Volume:
- 207
- Publication Date:
- August 1997
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Yes
- Pages:
- 192
- Dimensions:
- 8.26x5.44x.52 in. .51 lbs.
