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Sexing the Cherry

Sexing the Cherry

by JeanetteWinterson (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1990

    $3.25

  • Used

    Hardcover 1989

    $3.25

  • New

    Paperback 2000

    $16.58
Synopsis

Set in the 17th century, Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

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14 in stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 144
 Edition: 1st Vintage Edition
 Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06 Sep 1990
ISBN 10: 0099747200
ISBN 13: 9780099747208
Book Overview: 'Entrancing...fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry' Sunday Telegraph

Media Reviews
A book of innocence and bawdiness, fury and joy...needs to be read and re-read The Times Read it and marvel. Jeanette Winterson's voice is startlingly original, and her imaginative feats are utterly dazzling Cosmopolitan Simple prose shows the subtlest of minds behind it, swift, confident and dazzling Financial Times Winterson juggles past and present, fantasy and reality, to produce an original and entertaining novel which invites us to re-examine our own perceptions of time Sunday Times Her stories and characters levitate off the page into dancing life... A bold, bizarre and timely book Independent
Author Bio
Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including The Passion, Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body, 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. Visit her website at www.jeanettewinterson.com