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Art & Lies Jeanette Winterson

Art and Lies By Jeanette Winterson

Art & Lies by Jeanette Winterson


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Summary

Handel, Picasso and Sappho, seperately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book.

Art & Lies Summary

Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson

'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?

Art & Lies Reviews

"If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality, if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson...she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these things" -- Cressida Connolly Literary Review "Brave and ambitious" Independent "Winterson's belief in love, beauty, and most of all, language, is evangelical and redemptive...it is timely and exciting to read" -- Rachel Cusk The Times

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival. She lives in London and Gloucestershire. To find out more visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com.

Additional information

GOR001638416
9780099462316
0099462311
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd by Jeanette Winterson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
1995-05-25
240
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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