Written on the Body

by Jeanette Winterson

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1992

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Lambda Literary Award (Lesbian Fiction, 1993)

ALA Stonewall Book Award Nominee (1993)

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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0394280148, Paperback)

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

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