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.
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
發表於2024-06-26
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真的孤獨。作者前言很棒 It is the poet who is trying to understand us.
評分當宗教撞上性取嚮,教條束縛撞上自由意誌,她選擇做一隻野生狐狸,而不是溫馴的犬。
評分“As it is, I can't settle, I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and know that love is as strong as death, and be on my side for ever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. ”我甚至開始幻想,如果他也曾翻過這本書該多好。
評分一度很迷戀這個作者。。。
評分audiobook read by Jeanette Winterson 有聲書也不是第一次聽瞭 常聽常新
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