Books by Jeanette Winterson
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review 1: Having read most of Jeanette Winterson's other novels, this was very different than the writing I had become accustomed to. There was less importance on the author's part for her poetic writing and more concentration on the very disturbing story. Yet, even with telling a story ab...
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review 1: This genre bending author allows us not only into her tormented world but also shares her healing process. Emphasizing the power of language to bolster, heal and contain experience -difficult experience, Winterson describes the fallout from her adoption into poverty where she is ...
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review 1: This will not be a book for everyone. Loosely based on the Pendle Witch Trials in Lancaster in 1612 Winterson carefully orchestrates a tale of horror as to the treatment of women and people at a time when King and God were confusing figures of power with the authority to do almo...
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review 1: This book is a memoir and the rewriting of an autobiographical fictional book that the author wrote years before (see the previous entry). The author grew up in a Pentecostal house in an industrial northern city in England in the 1960s and 70s, with an insane mother who locked he...
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review 1: WHOA JEANETTE. The Stone Gods is still my favourite book by her but this is a very close contender. Reading this was painful but also life-givingly comforting - very wounded healer. I don't share many of JW's life circumstances but I did have many experiences as a child and adole...
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review 1: ImagineA city made of gold, and each thing in it made of gold, and every person as golden as a precious statue, and the Thames itself a flowing golden god, where a dropped line would hook a golden fish. . .This story is about a man called the Magus. He dreams of turning London in...
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review 1: I always like to enjoy reading a children's or YA novel from time to time and this was a good choice.Perhaps not quite as enjoyable as it's predecessor, Tanglewreck, but it is a worthy read. I found the first half of the book stronger than the second but any fans of young adult f...