false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166669774m/15047.jpg 15047 18 In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical <I>Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,</I> an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. She was 25. Two years later, <I>The Passion,</I> her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri--Napoleon's cook--and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. In the end, Henri, incarcerated on an island of madmen, becomes aware that his passion, "even though she could never return it, showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else." 864738 1987 The Passion total:3491|5:1473|4:1254|3:613|2:129|1:22| 3491 14500 4433 345 5 4 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Wed Jul 18 16:00:03 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 22 08:18:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 3 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 18 06:00:20 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 05 20:42:38 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 16 20:52:53 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 31 15:52:33 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 19:49:27 -0800 2009 Sat Feb 28 14:19:08 -0800 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Sep 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 14 22:06:32 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 20 12:24:35 -0700 2009 3
This story of a peasant boy who cooks chickens for Napolean and the cross-dressing card dealer in a Venice, Italy casino is blessed with sparing...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 31 13:06:27 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 06 08:58:43 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Mar 30 11:55:18 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 12:33:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 16:38:29 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 19 16:59:25 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Nov 20 11:33:49 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 11:40:50 -0800 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 14:32:12 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 22 14:32:12 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 15:19:54 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 16:06:31 -0700 2009
It foreshadows the "raging soul" of passion and, when it sours, obsession, the movement awa...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon May 25 09:34:47 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 10:11:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 07:46:46 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 07:03:14 -0700 2009
This is a novel of lust and obsession, with war, ga...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 21:41:51 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 12:00:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 14:43:09 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 13:23:25 -0800 2009 I thought that the magical realism Winterson sprinkles through The Passion was great. Henri breaki...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 03:25:09 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 03:56:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 05:04:03 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 11:06:48 -0700 2009
I didn't expect to like this book as much as I did. Winterson wr...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 07:56:52 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 00:14:04 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 07:56:52 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 14:53:14 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 12:30:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 12:56:20 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 21:13:35 -0700 2009
I absolutely loved Oranges are Not the Only Fruit , which I read during a lit course. I didn’t quite know what to expect with this book, but I was very interested to see wha...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15047