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Jeanette Winterson CBE FRSL (born 27 August 1959) is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology.
BY THE TIMES. Gloriously gothic and unnervingly contemporary, Winterson examines grief, revenge, and the myriad ways in which technology can disrupt the boundary between life and death. UK EDITION. US EDITION. Jeanette Winterson's books, from most recent to first published.
Jeanette Winterson has 104 books on Goodreads with 784636 ratings. Jeanette Winterson’s most popular book is Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a novel by Jeanette Winterson published in 1985 by Pandora Press. It is a coming-of-age story about a lesbian who grows up in an English Pentecostal community. Key themes of the book include transition from youth to adulthood, complex family relationships, same-sex relationships , organised religion and the ...
Aug 9, 2021 · A kind of comparative mythology, where the hype and ideology of cutting-edge tech is read through the lens of far older stories' Spectator. The author of 12 Bytes on how even a limited access to books helped her confidence as a writer, from The Bible to Virginia Woolf's Orlando.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
Mar 12, 2013 · Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity.
Mar 21, 1985 · 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. Show more.
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