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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     School Library Journal Review     More Content       More by this author     Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-       by title:      Why be happy when yo...       by call number:      921 W788w     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Biography 921 W788w Core Collection - Adult Item being held Add Copy to MyList

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