Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

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«She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides»
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'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'

This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts.

At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.

'Witty… extraordinary and exhilarating' The Times

'She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides' Vanity Fair

'Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming' Evening Standard

'A novel that deserves revisiting' Observer

'A wonderful rites-of-passage novel' Mariella Frostrup

Detaljer

Forlag: Vintage
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
Sider: 240
ISBN: 9780099598183
Utgivelsesår: 2014
Format: 20 x 13 cm

Om forfatteren

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.

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«She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides»
Vanity Fair

«Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming»
Evening Standard

«A novel that deserves revisiting...Winterson maintains a balance of tone, a trueness of voice... It remains one of the finest things Winterson has written»
Observer

«Still extraordinary, still brilliant»
Metro

«Even at a time when so many good and interesting novels are coming out, hers stand out as performances of real originality and extraordinary promise»
John Bayley

«Wonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite»
Mariella Frostrup

«It is very funny, with an Alan Bennett sort of humour, beautifully written, quirky and likely to cause much tuttutting in conservative quarters»
Daily Mail

«This lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn't seem to have aged a bit»
Independent

«An instant classic»
Rosemary Goring, Herald

Medlemmers vurdering

hb – 28.11.2005

– This is Jeanette Wintersons debut novel which caused some controversy but became so popular that it was later made into a TV series. The novel is not automatically autobiographical, but we follow a girl named Jeanette through her upbringing in a British industrial town where she was raised by her deeply religious parents who adopted her when she was only a baby. Things are not easy for Jeanette who discovers that she falls in love with women and not men and we follow her struggles to find her own identity. This book also has some lovely stories-within-the-tale which is part of Wintersonss way of writing and which makes it even more interesting to read.