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See moreA 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.
'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times
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The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES.
'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' - The Times
In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made.
With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms.
'An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body' - Sunday Telegraph
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Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body is praised for its unique blend of love story and philosophical exploration. Critics appreciate its challenge to conventional ideas of gender and reality, creating a new language for love through the physicality of the body. The book is seen as both ambitious and revelatory, reflecting on the phenomenon of love in a refreshingly original way.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780099598275
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 04 September 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 141g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
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