Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

An inspired meditation on myth and language. --The New Yorker

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver (My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate.), an orphaned girl who is taken in by the blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lives two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark s life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and finally, into love.
Pew's yarns, and later Silver's, are not just about love and loss . . . but about narrative itself, and the ways in which life refuses to conform to the boundaries of a story, just as desire rebels at the limits of the world. Village Voice

Intimate, romantic, elegant and charmingly literary, Winterson s new novel is a poetic narrative that reaffirms the power of storytelling to provide hope when times are most desperate, and to give life--and light--when matters seem most dark. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Winterson weaves a beautiful and coherent tapestry . . . she achieves a quality that justly can be called visionary. Los Angeles Times

Jeanette Winterson is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and a children s picture book. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prze, and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.

Jeanette Winterson OBE has written ten novels, children s books, non-fiction works, and screenplays, and writes regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, and twenty-seven years later in her bestselling memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? The Winter s Tale tells the story of Perdita, the abandoned child. All of us have talismanic texts that we have carried around and that carry us around. I have worked with The Winter s Tale in many disguises for many years, Jeanette says of the play. The result is The Gap of Time, her cover version.

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ISBN 13	9780151011179
ISBN 10	0151011176
Title	Lighthousekeeping
Author	Jeanette Winterson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin
Year published	2005-04-11
Number of pages	232
Prizes	Short-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Fiction) 2005
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