Oranges are not the only fruit / Jeanette Winterson.
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- 9780099598183 (paperback)
- 823 WIN 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Standard Loan | Moylish Library Fiction Collection | 823 WIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100610378 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.
At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.
'Witty... extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times
'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair
'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard
'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer
'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup
Originally published: London : Pandora, 1985.
Formerly CIP. Uk
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Author notes provided by Syndetics
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959 and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford.Her book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of her life as a child preacher (she wrote and gave sermons by the time she was eight years old). The book was the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction and was made into an award-winning TV movie. The Passion won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for best writer under thirty-five, and Sexing the Cherry won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award.
(Bowker Author Biography)