Written on the Body

by Jeanette Winterson

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Title	Written on the Body
Author	Jeanette Winterson
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Tags	literature
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Your review	I read Winterson's Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and I enjoyed it enough that I picked up another of her books. This tells the tale of a protagonist whose gender is never directly revealed (though she's a woman if I've ever seen one) and her love affair with a married woman. Who may or may not be dying of cancer. Even if it is about a lesbian relationship, Winterson's skill is such that it feels like it's about any and all relationships. Well, maybe not quite so broad-- I can't say I've ever had one like this-- but it still feels very real and very moving. The section where the protagonist is searching for her lost love is magnificently heart-aching, and the rest of the book is very good, too.
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Publication	Knopf (1993), Hardcover, 190 pages
Publication date	1992
ISBN	067942007X / 9780679420071
LC classification 1	PR6073.I558W56
Dewey 1	823/.914 20
Subjects	England › Fiction Love stories Married women › Fiction
Primary language eng	English
Secondary language	(blank)
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Date acquired	2007-05-01
Date started
Date finished	2008-10-01
Summary 0	Written On The Body by Jeanette Winterson (1993)
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BCID	XXX-
Number of copies	1
Citation	MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, Wikipedia citation
Data source	Amazon.com

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