The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning
debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich
little novel” (The Washington Post Book World). When it first
appeared, Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary debut novel received
unanimous international praise, including the prestigious Whitbread
Prize for best first fiction. Winterson went on to fulfill that
promise, producing some of the most dazzling fiction and nonfiction of
the past decade, including her celebrated memoir Why Be Happy When You
Can Be Normal?. Now required reading in contemporary literature,
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a funny, poignant exploration of a
young girl’s adolescence. Jeanette is a bright and rebellious
orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour,
industrial North of England and finds herself embroidering grim
religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as
this budding missionary comes of age, and comes to terms with her
unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing
household dissolves. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of
her own heart and mind—and on reporting them with wit and
passion—makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an eccentric, moving
passage into adulthood. “If Flannery O’Connor and Rita Mae
Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl
in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle
hilarity of Jeanette Winterson’s autobiographical first
novel. . . . Winterson’s voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and
sensitivity, is one you’ve never heard before.” —Ms. Magazine
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ISBN
9780802198723
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Grove Press (ORIM)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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