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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Book
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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. "Oranges" was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson a thwarted giantess loomed over that novel and its author's life. When Jeanette finally left her home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman Mrs Winterson asked her: why be happy when you could be normal? This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition part of a community now vanished; and about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin.It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life and sent her on a journey into madness and out again in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other people's stories showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights a life-raft which supports us when we are sinking. Funny acute fierce and celebratory this is a tough-minded search for belonging for love an identity a home and a mother.
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Includes stories about a girl locked out of her home sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer waiting for Armageddon; and about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition part of a community now vanished.
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The novelist reveals the difficult childhood that led to Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit.
- 0224093452
- 9780224093453
- Jeanette Winterson
- 27 October 2011
- Jonathan Cape
- Hardcover (Book)
- 240
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