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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."

Table of Contents:

• The wrong crib
• My advice to anybody is: get born
• In the beginning was the word
• The trouble with a book...
• At home
• Church
• Accrington
• The apocalypse
• English literature A-Z
• This is the road
• Art and lies
• Intermission
• The night sea voyage
• This appointment takes place in the past
• Strange meeting
• The wound
• Coda.

Author/Creator:

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Why be happy when you could be normal? [by Winterson, J.]

Subjects:

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

Lesbians — England — Biography

Authors, English — Biography

Mothers and daughters — Biography

Lesbians

Authors, English

Mothers and daughters

England

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes "In conversation: Jeanette Winterson talks to A.M. Holmes," p. 231-236.

Physical Description:

236 pages ; 21 cm

Call Numbers:

PR6073.I558 Z46 2012

ISBNs:

9780802120878 (pbk.)
0802120873 (pbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

828863676