Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Lighthousekeeping (original 2004; edition 2006)by Jeanette Winterson (Author)
Work InformationLighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson (2004) Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Another story about storytelling. Winterson's books usually slide through my mind like fine silk leaving only an impression of strange beauty. Another orphan finds what family she can with a dog and a blind lighthousekeeper and stories found in the lighthouse. The dominant story is of a 19th century man named Babel Dark. Darwin and Jekyll and Hyde and seahorses and how love batters its way in. (August 19, 2005) no reviews | add a review
Awards
Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, opens like a map that Silver must follow. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNonePopular covers
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
Whether or not that's what really happened, the result is an ingenious pastiche of the postmodern-Victorian-novel genre (think French lieutenant's woman or Possession), opening with the memorably Chaplinesque image of the narrator and her mother living in a house built on such a steep slope that they weren't allowed spaghetti or peas. It's great fun and runs at a lightning pace, we get bombarded with casual references to Treasure Island, Dr Jekyll, and much else, and there's a semi-serious underlying idea about the importance of stories in helping us to make sense of an impossibly dynamic universe. ( )