Why be happy when you could be normal? / Jeanette Winterson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winterson, Jeanette, 1959-.

Winterson, Jeanette.

Lesbians--England--Biography.

Lesbians.

Authors, English--Biography.

Authors, English.

Mothers and daughters--Biography.

Mothers and daughters.

England.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Grove Press, [2011]

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."

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.

Notes:

Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Memoir/Biography, Winner, 2013

ISBN:

9780802120106

0802120105

9780224093453

0224093452

9780802120878

0802120873

OCLC:

771942079

Publisher Number:

99946717788