Sexing the Cherry

Author:   Jeanette Winterson
Publisher:   Avalon Travel Publishing
ISBN:  

9780802135780


Pages:   167
Publication Date:   10 August 1998
Format:   Paperback
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Jeanette Winterson's dazzling novels have earned her widespread and unanimous international acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in world literature. Sexing the Cherry is an imaginative tour de force exploring history, imagination, and the nature of time. In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child is rescued by the Dog Woman, a murderous gentle giant who names her newfound trophy Jordan and takes him out for walks on a leash. When he grows up Jordan, like Gulliver, travels the world, but finds that the strangest wonders are spun out of his own head. The strangest wonder of all is Time. Does it exist? What is its nature? Why does every journey conceal another journey within its lines? What is the difference between seventeenth-century Jordan and twentieth-century Nicholas Jordan, a navel cadet in a warship? And who are the Twelve Dancing Princesses? With a story full of shimmering epiphanies, Jeanette Winterson again demonstrates the keenness of her craft and the singularity of her vision.

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Author:   Jeanette Winterson
Publisher:   Avalon Travel Publishing
Imprint:   Avalon Travel Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.204kg
ISBN:  

9780802135780


ISBN 10:   0802135781
Pages:   167
Publication Date:   10 August 1998
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Praise for Sexing the Cherry: Sexing the Cherry fuses history, fairy tale, and metafiction into a fruit . . . of a memorably startling flavor. --The New York Times Book Review The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel. --The New York Times Sexing the Cherry is a firecracker. . . . Those who care for fiction that is both idiosyncratic and beautiful will want to read anything [Winterson] writes. --The Washington Post Book World


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Born in Manchester, England, JEANETTE WINTERSON is the author of more than twenty books, including the national bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.

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