Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

ISBN-13: 9780099556091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str.

Jeanette Winterson

Opis

Presents the story of an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.

Recenzje

Unforgettable... It's the best book I have ever read about the cost of growing up. Daisy Goodwin Sunday Times

O autorze

Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at sixteen to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.