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Written on the Body

By Jeanette Winterson
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Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson is a poignant exploration of love and desire, narrated by a genderless protagonist. The story delves into the complexities of romantic relationships, examining themes of passion, loss, and the physical and emotional layers of love. With poetic and philosophical reflections, it challenges traditional boundaries of identity and romance.
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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy exploring themes of love and identity through poetic prose and powerful, introspective storytelling. With its unique narrative voice and gender-neutral protagonist, it offers a fresh perspective on the complexities of human relationships and the universal nature of desire. If you're looking for a compelling and thought-provoking read, this book could be a perfect choice.

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Written on the Body

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.

'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.

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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

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Fiction General Fiction Health & Wellness Jeanette Winterson Literary Fiction Penguin Books Romance Self-Help & Personal Development

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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