Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.
Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
发表于2025-03-27
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
爱的成长之路 “爱。这个艰涩的字。一切起始的地方,我们必然归来的地方。爱。爱的匮乏。爱的可能。” ——节选自《我要快乐,不必正常》 我们所有人都在经历成长,我们所经历的生活都有其独特的意义。我们在时间的长河里经历成熟,我们应该活成自己,而不是活成别人眼里的自己...
评分文/舒念 每个故事都需要一个合理的开局,连穿越都需要一个原因或是契机,从而开启接下来的叙述。然而人生的真实之处就在于不合理,错误的开端也将铸就一个人义无反顾的人生。 错误的位置 魔鬼领我们找错了婴儿床。 每一个书写自己的人,都在描述同一个问题——我是谁。 我是谁...
评分文/舒念 每个故事都需要一个合理的开局,连穿越都需要一个原因或是契机,从而开启接下来的叙述。然而人生的真实之处就在于不合理,错误的开端也将铸就一个人义无反顾的人生。 错误的位置 魔鬼领我们找错了婴儿床。 每一个书写自己的人,都在描述同一个问题——我是谁。 我是谁...
评分爱的成长之路 “爱。这个艰涩的字。一切起始的地方,我们必然归来的地方。爱。爱的匮乏。爱的可能。” ——节选自《我要快乐,不必正常》 我们所有人都在经历成长,我们所经历的生活都有其独特的意义。我们在时间的长河里经历成熟,我们应该活成自己,而不是活成别人眼里的自己...
评分I always like JW’s writing. When this book came out in 2011, I ordered it but did not read it immediately. I thought that it was the fact-version of Oranges are not the only fruit. The online bookstore introduces the book this way: "Heartbreaking and funn...
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Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
这本书每一章内的情绪转折都很大,从极度的抑郁,忽然借由几句诗或几句引语而转向释然。只是这种豁然开朗颇不自然。我只能说,这转折之间有太多东西她没有讲。正如她自己所说,在人的内部,时间并不是直线的,所有的情绪可以通过所有经历的事情一起涌来。我想她只是做了筛选,讲了她觉得能讲的事。
评分The wider we read, the freer we become, collapsing the space between fact and fiction, as the energy of art is not time-bound.
评分沉溺于温特森的文字无法自拔患者
评分人生从一场错位开始,然后揭露,舔舐伤口,直到意识到不管你爱或者不爱我,生活就在哪里。幸福和正常都是一种选择。
评分是关于失去与寻找自我的一本书 真的很动人很powerful 最后两页我不舍得看完
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书