Passion Fruit: Romantic Fiction With a Twist

by Jeanette Winterson (editor), Fay Weldon

Thirteen stories offer fresh looks at the relationship between men and women by using dream imagery and surrealism

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories

168 pages, Paperback

First published February 6, 1986

About the author

Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.

One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.

She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.

Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.

Reviews

[chiasmatica · Rating 3 out of 5]

raccolta curata da jeanette winterson in cui non tutti i racconti funzionano, e ok, ma rebecca brown your mind is nasty and i love that

[Christelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I cant help but feel disappointed. A few stories were good (The Quilt Maker, Big Bertha's Stories) but the collection overall felt underwhelming and the quality of the stories uneven.

On the cover of the book you can read under the title "romantic fictions with a twist" and I really did not think that was a good description of the collection at all. Combined with the pop art cover I was expectin something completely different. Some stories were about violence, some about death, some about boredom... I am finishing those stories thinking I need a fun romantic comedy to watch to come back from unhappy romance.

[Sarah Thornton · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. Bought because Jeanette Winterson's name was on it.

[BookIT1981 · Rating 4 out of 5]

An accidental read, since I ordered the wrong book and felt bad about returning it to the library unread (& thus unloved); this is a nicely balanced set of dark love stories from a range of voices that find harmony (Highlights: Forgiveness and Herbert and Herself)

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the stories were really good but most of them were just ok.