Jeanette Winterson
Author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959 and graduated from St. Catherine's College, Oxford. Her book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of her life as a child preacher (she wrote and gave sermons by the time she was eight years old). The book was show more the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction and was made into an award-winning TV movie. The Passion won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for best writer under thirty-five, and Sexing the Cherry won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award. (Bowker Author Biography) Jeanette Winterson lives in London & the Cotswolds. (Publisher Provided) show less
Image credit: Jeanette Winterson. (Source Lesbian of the Day)
Series
Works by Jeanette Winterson
Fit for the future: The guide for women who want to live well (Pandora Press handbook) (1986) 11 copies
The Myths (A Short History of Myth / The Penelopiad / Weight / Dream Angus / Helmet of Horror / Lion's Honey) (2006) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Dreaming House 6 copies
The Psychometry of Books 1 copy
Pigen med det gyldne ansigt 1 copy
Das Haus am Ende der Zeit 1 copy
Der König von Capri 1 copy
The Spare Room 1 copy
Ted Hughes 1 copy
Fuck the binary 1 copy
Winterson, Jeanette Archive 1 copy
A Green Square [short story] 1 copy
Associated Works
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contributor — 352 copies
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Foreword, some editions; Contributor — 168 copies
The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them (2015) — Contributor — 82 copies
1914: Goodbye to All That: Writers on the Conflict Between Life and Art (2014) — Contributor — 28 copies
Andy Warhol at Christie's: Photographs; Paintings and Works on Paper; Prints (2012) — Contributor — 9 copies
Charleston press no. 1 : Orlando at the present time ; Zanele Muholi : faces and phases ; Famous women dinner service ;… — Contributor — 2 copies
Hogarth Shakespeare 6 book set — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Birthdate
- 1959-08-27
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- UK
- Country (for map)
- England, UK
- Birthplace
- Manchester, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Manchester, England, UK
Accrington, Lancashire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Education
- Accrington and Rossendale College
St Catherine's College, Oxford - Occupations
- fiction writer
teacher - Relationships
- Orbach, Susie (former spouse)
- Organizations
- University of Manchester
- Awards and honors
- E. M. Forster Award (1990)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists
OBE
CBE - Agent
- Caroline Michel
Members
Discussions
Oranges are not the only Fruit in Le Salon Littéraire du Peuple pour le Peuple (March 2012)
Reviews
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson
I know people love this book, but it really fell flat for me. There were some funny moments, particularly satirizing Napoleon and his cult-of-personality, but mostly it felt trite. There were lots of cliche one-liners – like one about how snowflakes are all unique – that were repeated so many times throughout the book (ostensibly to give them weight?), but in the end it just felt like a cheap way of trying to artificially create depth that wasn't there.
This was an overview of certain moments in history that have acted as stepping stones to AI. Whether AI is something that will benefit or harm us remains to be seen.
A lot of this felt like reading a history textbook - dry facts and rambling paragraphs.
The more concentrated portions of wintersons own musing were more entertaining.
A lot of this felt like reading a history textbook - dry facts and rambling paragraphs.
The more concentrated portions of wintersons own musing were more entertaining.
I hated this book. Winterson says that linear narrative is passe and now one needs to write non-linearly. I beg to disagree. Trying to read this was like wading through muck.
A beautiful, lyrical, magical-realistic, heart-breaking love story. A French country boy signs up for Napoleon’s army with dreams of glory and escape and learns what war really is. A Venetian boatman’s daughter who works in a casino loses her heart to a married woman. Each tells their story, and these stories of course ultimately entwine. Winterson’s writing is beautiful, as always. Some of my favorite passages:
“Most of these recruits aren’t seventeen and they’re asked to do in a few weeks what vexes the best philosophers for a lifetime; that is, to gather up their passion for life and make sense of it in the face of death.
“They don’t know how but they do know how to forget, and little by little they put aside the burning summer in their bodies and all they have instead is lust and rage.”
“News of the Coronation was spreading and I saw in the smiles of the people I travelled with how welcome it was. None of us thought that only fifteen years ago we had fought to do away with Kings for ever. That we had sworn never to fight again except in self-defence. Now we wanted a ruler and we wanted him to rule the world. We are not an unusual people.”
“The mystics and the churchmen talk about throwing off this body and its desires, being no longer a slave to the flesh. They don’t say that through the flesh we are set free. That our desire for another will lift us out of ourselves more cleanly than anything divine.”… (more)
Lists
Best Dystopias (1)
Short and Sweet (1)
Winter Books (1)
Women in War (1)
1990s (1)
Read This Next (1)
LGBTQIA Horror (1)
First Novels (1)
Favorite Memoirs (1)
Epistolary Books (1)
100 Hemskaste (1)
1980s (2)
A Novel Cure (3)
Magic Realism (3)
Five star books (4)
Teens (1)
Female Author (4)
Women's Stories (1)
Booker Prize (1)
Awards
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Statistics
- Works
- 53
- Also by
- 35
- Members
- 33,923
- Popularity
- #564
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 828
- ISBNs
- 682
- Languages
- 26
- Favorited
- 219
