The Fiction of Rushdie, Barnes, Winterson And Carter: Breaking Cultural And Literary Boundaries in the Work of Four Postmodernists by Gregory Rubinson
This book takes an in-depth look at the works of Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes, Jeanette Winterson and Angela Carter with specific emphasis on how they use literary devices to challenge fundamental ideas about politics, race, nationality and gender.
Added by: Dasha Shapiro | Karma: 56.19 | Fiction literature | 24 October 2011
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Lighthousekeeping Jeanette Winterson
The heroines of Jeanette Winterson's fiction have been fighting gravity for decades. With fantastical powers of weightlessness, walking on water and winging their way through cyberspace, their quest is to attain a bearable lightness of being. Moving in spirals rather than lines, her fiction reaches towards a timeless centre and she claims that her previous novel, The PowerBook, marked the end of a seven-novel cycle. With Lighthousekeeping, she has begun again.
Added by: willkei | Karma: 79.89 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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Jeanette Winterson Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
Added by: willkei | Karma: 79.89 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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Winterson, Jeanette - Gut Symmetries
Gut Symmetries is a collage of memories, snippets of scientific theory, meditations on abstract concepts like truth, and the events surrounding Jove, Alice, and Stella's affair. This is a book that demands your attention, jumping as it does from one seemingly tangential topic to another; but whereas physics still seeks a grand unification theory (GUT) to explain how everything in the universe fits together, Winterson actually finds one of her own in this satisfyingly complete fictional world.
Added by: willkei | Karma: 79.89 | Fiction literature | 9 September 2010
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Winterson, Jeanette - Boating for Beginners
A pleasure boat company is transformed when the proprietor, Noah, is chosen by the "One True God" to put "sunny" faith back in the world and women back in the kitchen. The author has written "Oranges are Not the Only Fruit",(winner of the 1985 Whitbread award) and "Sexing the Cherry".
