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Written on the Body

Written on the Body

by JeanetteWinterson (Author)

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    Paperback 1993

    $4.14

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    Paperback 1994

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Synopsis

Written on the Body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: 1st Vintage Book Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 02 Sep 1993
ISBN 10: 0099193914
ISBN 13: 9780099193913
Book Overview: 'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times

Media Reviews
Winterson's novels are about exploding our complacent notions of the real, breaking down received ideas of gender, time and space... John Donne wrote, Love...makes one little room, as everywhere. Winterson's novel arrives at a similar affirmation Time Out An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body...the result is a work that is consistently revelatory about the phenomenon of love New York Times Book Review This book is a deep sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out Guardian
Author Bio
Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival. She lives in London and Gloucestershire. To find out more visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com.