Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson

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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

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The is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. 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.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Summary

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: Vintage 21 by Jeanette Winterson

The is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. 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.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit Reviews

She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent abides -- Muriel Spark * Vanity Fair *
Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language... In her hands, words are fluid, radiant, humming * Evening Standard *
Even at a time when so many good and interesting novels are coming out, hers stand out as performances of real originality and extraordinary promise * John Bayley *
wonderful rites-of-passage novel... where the author's blossoming Sapphic nature leads her to eschew her mothers proffered favourite * Mariella Frostrup *
Still extraordinary, still brilliant * Metro *

About Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.

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Sku

GOR003462001

ISBN 13

9780099562993

ISBN 10

0099562995

Title

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit: Vintage 21 by Jeanette Winterson

Author

Jeanette Winterson

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Vintage Publishing

Year published

2011-08-04

Number of pages

192

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N/A

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