| Authors: |
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
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| Material type: |
Biography |
| Subject: |
Lesbians -- England -- Biography.
Authors, English -- Biography.
Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
Winterson, Jeanette,1959-
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| Language: |
English |
| Publisher: |
New York : Grove Press, 2011. |
| Description: |
230 p. ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780802120106 0802120105 |
| Contents: |
The wrong crib -- My advice to anybody is : get born -- In the beginning was the word -- The trouble with a book-- -- At home -- Church -- Accrington -- The apocalypse -- English literature A-Z -- This is the road -- Art and lies -- Intermission -- The night sea voyage -- This appointment takes place in the past -- Strange meeting -- The wound -- Coda. |
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| Rating: |
3 out of 5: It was okay |
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| Summary: |
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges." |