Written on the Body (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback)

Written on the Body (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

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

The Passion (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback)

Jeanette Winterson s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. 'The Passion' is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, 'The

Frankissstein - A Love Story (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Hansel and Greta - A Fairy Tale Revolution (Winterson Jeanette)(Pevná vazba)

Jeanette Winterson retells 'Hansel and Gretel'. 'Deep in the wood'Greta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. GreedyGuts, their aunt, doesn't appreciate Hansel and Greta's plans to replant trees and save the

World and Other Places (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly

Gap of Time - The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. 'Emotionally wrought and profoundly

Powerbook (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

'Winterson is a rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts' Ali Smith, Scotsman 'It's night. Finally, you can be the hero of your own life. But, there is a price to pay - the risk that you might leave the story as somebody else. 'Brilliant, evocative

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman

Sexing the Cherry (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Rescued by the Dog-Woman, a giant strong enough to fling an elephant into the air, their lives together will take them on a dizzying journey through space and time. As past and present collapse and centuries overlap, love, sex, truth, lies and twelve dancing princesses take centre stage

Christmas Days - 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Stone Gods (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl

Lighthousekeeping (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of

Passion (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

'A fantasy, a vivid dream...inventive and brilliant' GuardianHenri has a passion for Napoleon - but Napoleon has a passion for

Gut Symmetries (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback)

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God s elect, but as this budding

Jeanette Winterson (Andermahr Sonya)(Paperback)

In this comprehensive introduction to Winterson's work, Sonya Andermahr considers its significance in the context of contemporary British culture and literary history. Including an interview with the author, this guide offers an accessible reading of all Winterson's work and an overview of the

Art & Lies - A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I

Weight (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . . Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and

Love - Vintage Minis (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. This book focuses on love in all its forms. It includes selections from Jeanette Winterson's books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical

Art Objects - Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Winterson Jeanette)(Paperback / softback)

Winterson's own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on Modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on Virginia Woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that

Jak naštěpit třešeň - Jeanette Wintersonová

V pořadí třetí román přední současné britské prozaičky je přímo naditý podivuhodnými věcmi a ději. Splétá síť pronikavých a barvitých příběhů, které střídavě vypráví výstřední rabelaisovská obryně - Psí žena neboli Psářka - a její éterický nevlastní syn

Frankissstein - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: Frankissstein je nekonvenčným príbehom lásky, v ktorom sa prepletajú dramatické životné osudy na pozadí tém ako transhumanizmus, umelá inteligencia a LGBT vzťahy.Ženevské jazero, 1816. Devätnásťročná Mary Shelleyová píše príbeh o vedcovi, ktorý vytvorí novú formu

Tíha - Jeanette Wintersonová

Román současné britské spisovatelky. Svým výběrem postav z řecké mytologie: obra Atlase, který nese za trest na ramenou nebeskou klenbu, a udatného hrdiny Hérakla, který Atlasovu tíhu dočasně odejme, se známá britská spisovatelka rozhodla ze současného pohledu zkoumat lidskou

Vášeň - Jeanette Wintersonová - e-kniha

eBook: Henri vášnivo zbožňoval Napoleona a Napoleon vášnivo zbožňoval kurence. Počas cesty z Boulogne do Moskvy Henri zabil množstvo hydiny, ale ani jedného človeka. Medzitým v tom čase sa v Benátkach, meste nádejí a masiek, narodila Villanelle, po otcovi gondolierovi zdedila