Sexing the Cherry
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Sexing the Cherry by Janette Winterson
In a fantastic world that is and is not 17th-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world's most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the listener from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan's fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the listener from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.
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 | 9780679733164 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679733167 |
| Title | Sexing the Cherry |
| Author | Janette Winterson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Books USA |
| Year published | 1991-03-13 |
| Number of pages | 167 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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