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

Se alle

Winterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and entertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time

Sunday Times

Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book

Independent

Her strangest and most challenging fiction

The Times

It runs on the fuel of imagination...highly entertaining...an exploration of the elasticity of time and reality

The Times

'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 subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling' Financial Times

'Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book' Independent

Les mer
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...
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'Entrancing...fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry' Sunday Telegraph

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099598176
Publisert
2014-09-04
Utgiver
Vintage Publishing; Vintage
Vekt
160 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
13 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
192

Om bidragsyterne

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, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.