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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

by Jeanette Winterson
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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ISBN13: 9780802135162
ISBN10: 0802135161



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Innovative in style, its humour by turns punchy and tender, Jeanette Wintersons first novel, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. Its a love story, too. Wintersons 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 DArgent at Cannes for best script; The Golden Gate in San Francisco and an ACE Award at the Los Angeles television festival.

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"A striking, quirky, delicate, and intricate work . . . Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel. . . . Winterson's great gift is evident." —The Washington Post Book World

"A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into the narrative, Winterson allows herself the dangerous luxury of writing a novel that refuses to rely on rousing plot devices. . . . A fascinating debut . . . A penetrating novel." —Chicago Tribune

"If Flannery O'Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson's voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you've never heard before." —Ms.

"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

"An explosively imaginative writer." —The London Free Press

"She is a master of her material, a writer [of] great talent." —Muriel Spark

"Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language." —Evening Standard

"The most interesting writer I have read in twenty years." —Gore Vidal

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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 Gods 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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librariphile , October 21, 2012 (view all comments by librariphile)
This is one of those books that made me marvel at the existence of that kindred spirit feeling, despite incredibly different beginnings. I can't sum up what I learned--except maybe in a diary--and probably could benefit from a re-read.

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Anaya , September 01, 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.

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ISBN:
9780802135162
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
08/20/1997
Publisher:
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Series info:
Winterson, Jeanette
Pages:
192
Height:
.60IN
Width:
5.40IN
Thickness:
.50
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1985
Series Volume:
207
UPC Code:
2800802135164
Author:
Suniti Namjoshi
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
Subject:
England
Subject:
Lesbians
Subject:
General Fiction
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Bildungsromans
Subject:
Teenage girls
Subject:
Literature-Coming of Age
Subject:
Gay and Lesbian-Lesbian Fiction

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