Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out.
Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford university she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25.
发表于2025-04-10
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his is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God’s elect.
Zealous and passionate, she seems 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.
‘A novel that deserves revisiting…Winterson maintains a balance of tone, a trueness of voice… It remains one of the finest things Winterson has written’ Observer
‘Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language… In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming’ Evening Standard
‘Even at a time when so many good and interesting novels are coming out, hers stand out as performances of real originality and extraordinary promise’ John Bayley
‘A wonderful rites-of-passage novel’ Mariella Frostrup
"read yourself as a fiction as well as a fact"
评分真的孤独。作者前言很棒 It is the poet who is trying to understand us.
评分There’s no choice that doesn’t mean a loss.
评分在爱丁堡买了这个版本,最喜欢的英文小说,没有之一。每次读都有新意,英文版读起来更为动人,强推英文版的作者自序。Books read us back to ourselves,每个人都能在书里找到自己。
评分一度很迷恋这个作者。。。
Oranges are Not the Only Fruit 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书