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OverviewThe best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES 'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' Guardian Henri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for chicken. As soldier and emperor butcher their way across Europe, glory falls to ruin and love turns to hate. But, when Henri encounters the red-haired, web-footed Villanelle, he discovers in her an equal. Together they abandon their pasts, and flee to the Venetian canals to meet their singular destiny in the city of chance and disguises. 'A deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so.' New York Times Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jeanette WintersonPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Volume: 10 Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.145kg ISBN: 9780099598329ISBN 10: 0099598329 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 04 September 2014 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsIt's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant Guardian As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life Sunday Times A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail Times Literary Supplement Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so New York Times Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her Washington Post It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant * Guardian * As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life * Sunday Times * A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail * Times Literary Supplement * Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so * New York Times * Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her * Washington Post * It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant * Guardian * As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life * Sunday Times * A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail * Times Literary Supplement * Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so * New York Times * Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her * Washington Post * It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant Guardian As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formiddable appetite for life Sunday Times A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail Times Literary Supplement Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so New York Times Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her Washington Post Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her * Washington Post * Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so * New York Times * A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail * Times Literary Supplement * As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life * Sunday Times * It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant * Guardian * Author InformationJeanette Winterson CBE 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 sixteen 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, 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |