| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
230 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Summary |
This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges." |
| Contents |
The wrong crib -- My advice to anybody is : get born -- In the beginning was the word -- The trouble with a book... -- At home -- Church -- Accrington -- The apocalypse -- English literature A-Z -- This is the road -- Art and lies -- Intermission -- The night sea voyage -- This appointment takes place in the past -- Strange meeting -- The wound -- Coda. |
| Subject |
Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-
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Lesbians -- England -- Biography.
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Authors, English -- Biography.
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Mothers and daughters -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
0802120105 |
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9780802120106 |
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