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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Reader Score
76%
76% of readers
recommend this book
Book Details
- Publisher: Grove Press
- Publish Date: Aug 20th, 1997
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.10in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780802135162
- Categories: • Coming of Age• LGBTQ+ - Lesbian• Literary
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About the Author
Born in Manchester, England, JEANETTE WINTERSON is the author of more than twenty books, including the national bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.
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What people are saying
"The book really spoke to me on a personal level. There’s a line on the first page where she says, “There’s never been a time when I haven’t known that I was special.” She doesn’t mean special as in fantastic, she means different, and that really resonated with me as a teenager."
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Praise for this book
"A daring, unconventional comic novel . . . by employing quirky anecdotes, which are told with romping humor, and by splicing various parables into the narrative, Winterson allows herself the dangerous luxury of writing a novel that refuses to rely on rousing plot devices. . . . A fascinating debut . . . A penetrating novel." --Chicago Tribune
"If Flannery O'Connor and Rita Mae Brown had collaborated on the coming-out story of a young British girl in the 1960s, maybe they would have approached the quirky and subtle hilarity of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical first novel. . . . Winterson's voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you've never heard before." --Ms.
"The overwhelming impression of her work is one of remarkable self-confidence, and she evidently thrives on risk.... As good as Poe: it dares you to laugh and stares you down." --The New York Review of Books
"An explosively imaginative writer." --The London Free Press
"She is a master of her material, a writer [of] great talent." --Muriel Spark
"Many consider her to be the best living writer in this language." --Evening Standard
"The most interesting writer I have read in twenty years." --Gore Vidal
What people are saying
"The book really spoke to me on a personal level. There’s a line on the first page where she says, “There’s never been a time when I haven’t known that I was special.” She doesn’t mean special as in fantastic, she means different, and that really resonated with me as a teenager."
32. She/they. I write about ladies and ladies smooching ladies. Header PukaoArt. Art are my characters. Opinions are my own.
#IndiePride2 Aside from my amazing writing mutuals? 🥰 @adiba_j (Henna Wars, Dos and Donuts of Love) Catherine M Wilson (When Women Were Warriors) Jeanette Winterson (Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Written on the Body) https://t.co/TYXvZvb8vm