A novel of loss and love. The author has also written "Sexing the Cherry" and "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize and was later adapted as an award-winning BBC dramatization. Her book "The Passion" won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
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A novel of loss and love. The author has also written "Sexing the Cherry" and "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit" which won the 1985 Whitbread Prize and was later adapted as an award-winning BBC dramatization. Her book "The Passion" won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
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This novel examines the relationship between gender, the body, love, and lust. The narrator's gender is unknown, and furthermore, we know the narrator mostly through his/her lovers, and this causes the reader to analyze every action. This novel is exceptionally wonderful in that it causes the reader's concept of gender to be questioned. It's told with a beautiful, violent urgency. Wonderful.
jokergal
Apr 2, 2007
Amazingly wonderful
Although heartbreaking at moments, Jeanette Winterson's book is amazingly beautiful. A master with word play she creates a world that is defined by the human body. The story is told from the point of view of a nameless and genderless narrator and throughout you are searching for clues to both questions. A book about love, lose, and beauty this book will be hard to put down. Her words are beautiful and I find myself rereading it every few months.
