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Winterson, Jeanette 1959-
Most widely held works about
Jeanette Winterson
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Most widely held works by
Jeanette Winterson
Oranges are not the only fruit by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
83
editions published
between
1984
and
2010
in
9
languages
and held by
1,609
libraries
worldwide
The coming-of-age story of Jess, the adopted daughter of a deeply religious woman, who grows up isolated and insulated in the north of England in the 1960's. Jess meets Melanie, and the two teenagers fall in love, greatly upsetting Jess's mother and her congregation.
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
39
editions published
between
2004
and
2008
in
9
languages
and held by
1,426
libraries
worldwide
Taken in by the enigmatic blind keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, an orphaned Silver listens as the aged man recounts stories that center around a nineteenth-century clergyman who lived a paradoxical life.
Written on the body by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
47
editions published
between
1992
and
2007
in
13
languages
and held by
1,395
libraries
worldwide
A vulnerable and subversive Lothario, whose gender has not been declared, relates an affair with a married woman.
The passion by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
64
editions published
between
1987
and
2007
in
13
languages
and held by
1,346
libraries
worldwide
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. With a de-frocked priest and a midget groom, Henri witnessed the scourge of Europe. In Venice, the city of chance and disguises, a great beauty was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father. In the casino, Villanelle learned that what people risk reveals what they value - she gambled her heart and lost. For eight years the soldier-chef watched young men die and his love for Napoleon turned to hate. Passion does not take disappointment well. He found the Venetian beauty whose heart was lost and together they fled frozen Russia to the canals of darkness and paradox.
The stone gods by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
22
editions published
between
2007
and
2011
in
5
languages
and held by
1,324
libraries
worldwide
After rendering the planet unlivable, humankind begins to colonize a new blue planet, and heroine Billie Crusoe embarks on a personal odyssey into the future, in an adventure that explores humankind's relationship to the environment, power, and technology.
Sexing the cherry by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
53
editions published
between
1989
and
2007
in
9
languages
and held by
1,280
libraries
worldwide
Bizarre images and bawdy laughter galvanize this splendid English farce about a prodigious giantess and her explorer son in 17th-century London. Jordan fetches the first pineapple to the court of Charles II, while his mother, The Dog Woman, wreaks vengeance upon Puritans in a brothel. The plague; the flying princesses who defy laws of the courts and gravity; Jordan's travels to the floating city and the botanical wonders of the New World--the tale nips easily in and out of history and fantasy. The two characters eventually merge into the grievously polluted life of modern London. Metaphors abound with polemics on environmental concerns and politics of past and present. Not for the Jackie Collins set: readers need a background in surrealism to follow this story. -- Library Journal.
Tanglewreck by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
27
editions published
between
2006
and
2010
in
7
languages
and held by
1,190
libraries
worldwide
Eleven-year-old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper--a clock that controls time--and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want to use the device for their own nefarious ends.
Art & lies : a piece for three voices and a bawd by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
17
editions published
between
1994
and
2010
in
English
and held by
1,057
libraries
worldwide
A defrocked priest describes how he removed the breast of a perfectly healthy prostitute to punish her for her lifestyle in this experimental novel. The priest, who is a doctor, is one of three characters discussing art, technology and truth while travelling on a high-speed train. The others are a painter and a poet. By the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
Gut symmetries by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
23
editions published
between
1997
and
2010
in
5
languages
and held by
1,036
libraries
worldwide
Aboard the QE2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand Unified Theories (GUTs) of modern physics, Winterson incorporates the entire universe from Liverpool to New York, from quarks to cosmos - in a novel of sex and the spirit, the real and the fantastic, male and female, science and religion, and love in all its frailty and excess.
The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
32
editions published
between
2000
and
2004
in
9
languages
and held by
1,034
libraries
worldwide
"An e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're prepared to enter the story as yourself and risk leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it."--Jacket.
Weight by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
33
editions published
between
2005
and
2009
in
8
languages
and held by
994
libraries
worldwide
"In ancient Greek mythology, Atlas, a member of the original race of Gods called Titans, leads a rebellion against the new deities, the Olympians. For this he incurs divine wrath: the victorious Olympians force Atlas, guardian of the Garden of Hesperides and its golden apples of life, to bear the weight of the earth and the heavens for eternity. When the hero Heracles, as one of his famous twelve labours, is tasked with stealing these apples he seeks out Atlas, offering to shoulder the world temporarily if the Titan will bring him the fruit. Knowing that Heracles is the only person with the strength to take his burden, and enticed by the prospect of even a short-lived freedom, Atlas agrees and an uneasy partnership is born." "Jeanette Winterson brings Atlas into the twenty-first century. Simultaneously, she asks her own difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, and how we forage our own destiny. Visionary and inventive, yet completely believable and relevant to our lives today, Winterson's skill in turning the familiar on its head and showing us a different truth is once more put to dazzling effect."--BOOK JACKET.
The world and other places by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
21
editions published
between
1998
and
2000
in
English and German
and held by
831
libraries
worldwide
Seventeen stories on a range of subjects. The story, Newton, is on conformity in suburbia, Poetics of Sex is on lesbian love, and Disappearance I is on a world where sleep is illegal.
Art objects : essays on ecstasy and effrontery by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
21
editions published
between
1995
and
2001
in
English and Polish
and held by
792
libraries
worldwide
Jeanette Winterson argues in this collection for the importance of art in all our lives. In ten intertwined essays, the acclaimed author of such recent novels as Written on the Body and Art & Lies proposes art as an active force in the world - neither elitist nor remote, available to those who want it and affecting even those who don't.
The King of Capri by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
7
editions published
between
2003
and
2007
in
4
languages
and held by
575
libraries
worldwide
The greedy and self-centered king of Capri has a reversal of fortune when the wind blows all of his precious things into the backyard of a kind and generous Naples washerwoman, Mrs. Jewel.
Tracey Emin : works 1963-2006 by Tracey Emin (
Book
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2
editions published
in
2006
in
English
and held by
334
libraries
worldwide
Bill Moyers on faith & reason(
visu
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5
editions published
between
2006
and
2010
in
English
and held by
323
libraries
worldwide
Bill Moyers explores the mysterious region between rationality and belief, joined by some of the world's most provocative writers and thinkers.
The battle of the sun by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
7
editions published
between
2009
and
2010
in
English
and held by
287
libraries
worldwide
When he is chosen by the evil Magus to perfect an alchemy that will transform everything in seventeenth-century London into gold, Jack resolves to defy the Magus and save the city from the machinations of the ambitious villain.
Boating for beginners by Jeanette Winterson (
Book
)
15
editions published
between
1985
and
1999
in
English and Undetermined
and held by
275
libraries
worldwide
Gulliver's travels by Jonathan Swift (
Book
)
3
editions published
between
1999
and
2000
in
English
and held by
227
libraries
worldwide
Midsummer nights(
Book
)
5
editions published
between
2009
and
2010
in
English
and held by
197
libraries
worldwide
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Aesthetics Aesthetics, Modern American fiction--Women authors Art and technology Atlas (Greek deity) Barnes, Djuna Blind Choice (Psychology) Clergy Clocks and watches Criticism, interpretation, etc. Difference (Psychology) England English fiction--Women authors Feminism and literature Fiction Gender identity Great Britain Hauser, Marianne Heracles (Greek mythology) History Homosexuality and literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Interplanetary voyages Italy--Venice Juvenile works Lesbians Lesbians' writings, American Lesbians' writings, English Lighthouse keepers Literature Love stories Married women Monologues Older men Sappho Science fiction Sex role Soldiers Space and time Storytelling Teenage girls Time Time travel Winterson, Jeanette,--1959- Women Women and literature Women artists Woolf, Virginia,--1882-1941 Young women
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Alternative Names
Winterson, Jeanette
ווינטרסון, ג׳נט, 1959-
ジャネット・ウィンターソン
ווינטרסון, ג׳נט
Уинтерсон, Дженет
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