Sexing The Cherry

Author: Jeanette Winterson

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  • : $26.99 AUD
  • : 9780099598176
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : UNKNOWN
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  • : September 2014
  • : 19.80 cmmm X 12.90 cmmm X 1.30 cmmm
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  • : 26.99
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  • : April 2023
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  • : English
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Description

Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. With a new introduction by the author

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'Entrancing...fabulous... Its language retains the clear music of poetry' Sunday Telegraph

Author description

Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn't work out. Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.