The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Hamish Hamilton are delighted to welcome Jeanette Winterson, one of our very favourite authors, to the list with her superb new novel, The Stone Gods. All the talk is of the new blue planet... This new world weighs a yatto-gram. But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-of-focus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by fish...
Like Scheherazade, MsWinterson possesses an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wondrous worlds in which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. She possesses the ability to combine the biting satire of Swift with the ethereal magic of Garcia Marquez, the ability to reinvent old myths even as she creates new ones of her own -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times Book Review *
She is a kind of magician. She can do anything -- Ali Smith * The Scotsman *
Like Scheherazade, Ms. Winterson possesses an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wondrous worlds in which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. She possesses the ability to combine the biting satire of Swift with the ethereal magic of Garcia Marquez, the ability to reinvent old myths even as she creates new ones of her own -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times Book Review *
She is a kind of magician. She can do anything -- Ali Smith * The Scotsman *
She is a kind of magician. She can do anything -- Ali Smith * The Scotsman *
Like Scheherazade, Ms. Winterson possesses an ability to dazzle the reader by creating wondrous worlds in which the usual laws of plausibility are suspended. She possesses the ability to combine the biting satire of Swift with the ethereal magic of Garcia Marquez, the ability to reinvent old myths even as she creates new ones of her own -- Michiko Kakutani * The New York Times Book Review *
She is a kind of magician. She can do anything -- Ali Smith * The Scotsman *
Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester in 1959. She is the author of over twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Tanglewreck, Art Objects and The Stone Gods. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit won her the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, and Winterson adapted the novel for television in 1990. She has also been the recipient of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E.M. Forster Award and two Lambda Literary Awards, which are given to works that explore LGBTQ issues. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780241143988 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241143985 |
| Title | The Stone Gods |
| Author | Jeanette Winterson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2007-09-27 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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