From Powells.com
Jeanette Winterson is brilliant, outspoken, and, in the words of Kirkus Reviews "willing to risk being misunderstood for the sake of taking choice imaginative lunges." Her work glitters with intellect and invention; she is a writer whose love of the tactile is as apparent as her love of the written word. Sometimes her sentences are palpable enough to stroke or taste, while others leave you smarting from her razor sharp insight. The novel Written on the Body expands on many of her favorite themes: love, death, desire, risk, and their unlikely rewards. It is a love story told by an unknown and unreliable narrator (we don't even know the narrator's gender) who falls in love with a woman called Louise. It is thorough, dense and multi-layered, lush and philosophical. Monica, Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review.
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and spent her childhood in Accrington. She studied English at Oxford University. In 1985, she won the Whitbread First Novel Awards for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her second novel, The Passion, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1987, and was followed by Sexing the Cherry, which won the 1989 EM Forster Award. Her other works include The.PowerBook, Written on the Body, Arts and Lies, Boating for Beginners, The World and Other Places, and a collection of essays, Art Objects.