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Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry By Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson


$17.49
Condition - Very Good
10 in stock

Summary

Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

Sexing the Cherry Summary

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality.

It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

With a new introduction by the author

'A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read'
The Times

'Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling'
Cosmopolitan

'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book'
Independent

'Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling'
Financial Times

Sexing the Cherry Reviews

A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read * The Times *
Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling * Cosmopolitan *
Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling * Financial Times *
Winterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and entertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time * Sunday Times *
Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book * Independent *

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out.

Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

Additional information

GOR006884926
9780099598176
0099598175
Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2014-09-04
192
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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