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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- -- Childhood and youth.
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- -- Family.
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Oranges are not the only fruit.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- -- Childhood and youth.
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- -- Family.
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- Oranges are not the only fruit.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Women authors -- Biography.
Lesbians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Why be happy when you could be normal? /
Jeanette
Winterson
.
by
Winterson
,
Jeanette
,
1959-
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2011.
Call #:
921 W788w
Subjects
Winterson
,
Jeanette
,
1959-
--
Childhood and youth.
Winterson
,
Jeanette
,
1959-
--
Family
.
Winterson
,
Jeanette
,
1959-
Oranges are not the only fruit.
Novelists, English
--
20th century
--
Biography.
Women authors
--
Biography.
Lesbians
--
Great Britain
--
Biography.
ISBN:
9780307401243
0307401243
Description:
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Heartbreaking and funny: the true story behind
Jeanette
's bestselling and most beloved novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985, at twenty-five,
Jeanette
published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Oranges became an international bestseller, inspired an award-winning BBC adaptation, and was semi-autobiographical. Mrs.
Winterson
, a thwarted giantess, loomed over the novel and the author's life: when
Jeanette
left home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman, Mrs.
Winterson
asked her: Why be happy when you could be normal? This is
Jeanette
's story--acute, fierce, celebratory--of a life's work to find happiness: a search for belonging, love, identity, a home. About a young girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night, and a mother waiting for Armageddon with two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer; about growing up in a northern industrial town; about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. She thought she had written over the painful past until it returned to haunt her and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are sinking."--Overdrive.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Holds:
7
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Adult Biography
921 W788w
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