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To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.O, the Oprah Magazine
The 40th anniversary edition of a beloved modern classic and pioneering work of autofictiona funny, poignant exploration of a young girls quirky passage into adulthood
With a new introduction and afterword by the author
Jeanette Wintersons extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. An international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Fiction, it is considered a classic of contemporary literature and taught widely around the world, in courses ranging from core undergraduate classes to womens studies and queer studies.
Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanettes insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mindand on reporting them with wit and passionmakes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood.
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 11/11/2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780802167323
Language: English
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