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Fascinating, heartbreaking, occasionally gut-bustingly hilarious.
Any of us who were weird little girls can identify with the narrator, whether or not we grew up in the north of England or had a whackadoodle evangelist mother. Winterson has a keen eye, and her use of the English language is simply brilliant.
Any of us who were weird little girls can identify with the narrator, whether or not we grew up in the north of England or had a whackadoodle evangelist mother. Winterson has a keen eye, and her use of the English language is simply brilliant.
I wasn't sure what rating to give this book because I think it was really well written and an interesting story but I found it very at to read at times. Honestly there are parts of the book that I absolutely did not understand. But overall, I think it was a good read.
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I wanted to like this book much more than I actually did. I've really enjoyed some of Winterson's other books and this one seems to be one of her most famous. But somehow the characters all fell flat for me. While the reactions to the main character's coming out (or, more accurately, being discovered) as a lesbian were horrendous, it didn't have much emotional power and ultimately just felt sort of detached and distant - like a story seen through fogged up car windows while driving through a gri
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The narrator's story of disillusionment with her mother's religion is told with tenderness and razor-sharp humor at once. Her mother is awful, truly awful, yet there's a kernel of sweetness left to her in the telling that could not have been easy to pull off.
As the story goes on, and Jeanette's life becomes more and more unmoored, we drift more and more frequently into mythological or medieval tales of quests and fate that serve as both mirror and escape for the narrator.
This was fantastic - al ...more
As the story goes on, and Jeanette's life becomes more and more unmoored, we drift more and more frequently into mythological or medieval tales of quests and fate that serve as both mirror and escape for the narrator.
This was fantastic - al ...more
Such a lesbian classic
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Mar 29, 2015
Lindsay
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Dana Arbelaez
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Kathleen (itpdx)
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