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Why be happy when you could be normal?
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
| Main Author: | Winterson, Jeanette, 1959- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Grove Press,
[2012], c2011.
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| Summary: |
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges." |
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| Item Description: |
Includes "In conversation: Jeanette Winterson talks to A.M. Holmes," p. 231-236. |
| Physical Description: |
236 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780802120878 (pbk.) : 0802120873 (pbk.) : |
| Author Notes: |
Her book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, is a semi-autobiographical account of her life as a child preacher (she wrote and gave sermons by the time she was eight years old). The book was the winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction and was made into an award-winning TV movie. The Passion won the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize for best writer under thirty-five, and Sexing the Cherry won the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award. (Bowker Author Biography) |