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Sexing The Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
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Description for Sexing The Cherry
paperback. Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
'A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read' The Times
On the banks of the Thames a baby is found floating. Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time.
As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage.
'Entrancing...fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry' Sunday Telegraph
'Simple prose shows the ... Read more
'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book' Independent
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099598176
SKU
9780099598176
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jeanette Winterson
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, ... Read more
Reviews for Sexing The Cherry
A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read
The Times
Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling
Cosmopolitan
Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling
Financial Times
Winterson juggles past and present, ... Read more
The Times
Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling
Cosmopolitan
Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling
Financial Times
Winterson juggles past and present, ... Read more