Topic: Jeanette Winterson
Written on the Body was recommended to me by a few different friends of mine over the course of a year. Jeanette Winterson has a way with words that I had never come in contact with before. Winterson speaks in metaphors, in ...
There are numerous references to walls in Jeanette Winterson?s novel, Weight. The reader is told many times that Atlas escapes into his own mind because his body is not free to go. Atlas? view towards the walls is that he sees ...
Jeanette Winterson?s Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is a bildungsroman ? a coming-of-age novel about ?Jeanette?, a girl growing up in an extremely religious household, who slowly comes to terms with her identity as a lesbian. When asked whether Oranges Are ...
In endeavoring to compose a truly unique love story, Jeanette Winterson makes a political statement with her novelette "Written on the Body" by challenging not just the nature and sufficiency of those labels, but also the very need for those labels. According ...
Edited by the ever- inventive Jeanette Winterson, Midsummer Nights is a collection of stories based on famous operas like Don Giovanni by household authors such as Ruth Rendell and Ali Smith. For those unfamiliar with even the most celebrated operas, there is ...
Is Mary Queen of Shops set to tie the knot? Last week gossip columns speculated that fashion guru Mary Portas, 49, plans to "marry" her 37-year-old partner, Grazia journalist Melanie Rickey.. Meanwhile, all of London is fascinated with Jeanette Winterson's love ...
), British novelist noted for her quirky, unconventional, and often comic novels.. Educated at St. Catherine's College, Oxford, Winterson held various jobs while working on her writing. Winterson's other novels include Sexing the Cherry (1989); Written on the Body (1992); Art ...
It is a long, long, time since the Conservative party had the support of a clever, truculent lesbian. But now one of them has come out, so to speak, for David Cameron -- the extremely talented writer Jeanette Winterson. It may be that ...
The Stone Gods, by Jeanette Winterson (Penguin, pounds 7.99) For all its refrigerated icecaps, replanted forests and synthesised food, Orbus is dying. It is at its best when it pauses, lyrical and lost, to lament an orphan's lot, or wonder ...
On a run-down world, the buzz is of a new, pristine blue planet, like Earth as it was 65 million years ago. This is the universe of The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson's latest novel: part satire, part love story, part manifesto ...
