Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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In 1985 Jeanette Winterson s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award, become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. Oranges was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over that novel and its author s life. When Jeanette finally left her home, at sixteen, because she could no longer remain there and survive, Mrs Winterson asked her- why be happy when you could be normal? This book is the story of a life s work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories- about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition, part of a community now vanished; about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. It is the stor
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Format: Hardback, 240 pages, 144mm x 222mm, 440 g
Published: 2011, Vintage Publishing, United Kingdom
Genre: Autobiography: Literary
Description
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson s first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up and be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five, her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award, become an international bestseller and inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. Oranges was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson, a thwarted giantess, loomed over that novel and its author s life. When Jeanette finally left her home, at sixteen, because she could no longer remain there and survive, Mrs Winterson asked her- why be happy when you could be normal? This book is the story of a life s work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories- about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother, who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the duster drawer, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition, part of a community now vanished; about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. It is the stor
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?