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2024-11-21
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
1 “可以正常的话,你为什么要快乐” 不久之前我看过一篇文章,大概意思是说,一个人至少要花十年、二十年的时间,离开他的原生家庭,这样他才能真正的独立。 真正的独立是什么? 意味着你不受父母的掌控,意味着你可以去你想去的城市,结交自己喜欢的朋友,做自己想做的事,想...
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1. 这不是一篇女同的爱情故事,甚至不关乎女同本身。 今年53岁的Jeanette Winterson写这部回忆录,与其说是疗伤,不如更像一个追问。她不像一个第一次审视自己伤口的人,诧异、愤怒、然后再在某种自我催眠的叙述中得着解脱和安慰。她acknowledge那些伤口,把命运的错误或者...
评分“我是一个女人。我是个希望能毫无愧疚、不被取笑地去爱同性的女人。”她内心最单纯的独白,《我要快乐,不必正常》探究着她的内心世界,她的经历成就她的作品、她的思想,独立、个性,有主见,自由…… 作者珍妮特·温特森,英国当代作家,代表作《橘子不是唯一的水果》,获英...
评分图书标签: 传记 英文原版 Jeanette_Winterson 英国文学 英国 JeanetteWinterson 珍妮特·温特森 珍妮特•温特森
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.
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
评分I'd be happy and abnormal.
评分非常喜欢。关于love, loss, longing. audio book听来非常亲近,叙述坦率、热诚,还有不同口音、小曲儿、对曼城描述的bonus。The pursuit of happiness 'is not all or nothing; it’s all and nothing'.
评分沉溺于温特森的文字无法自拔患者
评分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。
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书