Buy this book on-line WINTERSON**, JEANETTE: : Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?LONDON.JONATHAN CAPE,2011. ISBN 9780224093453.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE.Bright,crisp, clean,glossy laminated,subject's childhood autobiographical colour photographic illustrated dw/dj panels,with white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,would appear unread apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,original plain blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain pale biege endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-230pp [paginated] includes 15 chapters and a coda; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, a dedication,acknowledgements+thanks,and a contents list/table.
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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit',was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents.The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary.Instead she falls in love with a woman.Disaster.
Written when Jeanette Winterson was only twenty-five,her novel went on to win the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel,become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation.
'Orange' was semi-autobiographical.Mrs Winterson,a thwarted giantess,loomed over that novel and it's author's life.When Jeanette finally left her home,at sixteen,because she was in love with a woman,Mrs Winterson asked her: 'Why be happy when you can be normal?'
This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness.It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home,sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother,who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer,waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition, part of a community now vanished; about the Universe of a Cosmic Dustbin.It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life,and sent her on a journey into madness and out again,in search of her real mother.
It is also a book about other people's stories, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights,a life raft which supports us when we are sinking.
Funny,acute,fierce and celebratory,this is a tough-minded search for belonging,for love,an identity,a home,and a mother.
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