false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166669794m/15054.jpg 15054 16 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. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation."--New York Times Book Review. 809754 1992 Written on the Body total:4630|5:1955|4:1538|3:830|2:246|1:61| 4630 18970 5998 516 2 6 false false Thu Jun 26 12:17:17 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 26 12:25:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 6 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 1997 Mon Feb 25 09:07:48 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 07 11:28:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 4 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 16:36:36 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 18 21:57:35 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jan 28 18:27:09 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 28 18:31:37 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 3 true false Fri Jan 09 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 21:11:23 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 21:17:50 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Dec 06 06:37:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 06 06:46:06 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Mon Mar 03 16:56:13 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 02:24:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 23:45:13 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 07 23:46:43 -0700 2007 The narrator sounds at first like a man
then later like a woman. He/she has no particular
characteristics of her/his own apart from a voice.
The plot is also barely there. Narrator is having an
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"When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires. No-one can legislate love; it cannot be given orders or cajoled into service. Love belongs to itself,...more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 06:13:32 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 09 17:53:01 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Dec 12 17:26:27 -0800 2007 Mon Dec 31 07:04:00 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Aug 23 16:20:54 -0700 2007 Thu Oct 25 08:22:19 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Dec 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 06 11:12:43 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 06:43:22 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 2 false false Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Wed Jul 01 02:47:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 04:14:17 -0700 2009
"One of the first things that struck me upon reading Written on the Body (besides the fact that the narrator—and possibly Winterson herself—is totally fat-phobic) is that the narrator...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Feb 25 07:27:44 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 07:35:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 22:04:56 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 21 02:52:44 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 5 1 true false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Sep 14 14:30:56 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 17 07:13:03 -0700 2007
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"Why do human beings need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly."

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