Art & Lies
A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd
$32.61
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
6 August 2021
Summary
The best of Jeanette Winterson’s remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 Bytes.
‘Brave and ambitious’ - Independent
In a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the painter and the musician discover their fates drawn together by the curious agency of a book. As stories within st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099598282 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0099598280 |
| Author: | Jeanette Winterson |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 6 August 2021 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
Brave and ambitious
If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality, if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson…she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these things – Cressida Connolly * Literary Review *
Brave and ambitious * Independent *
Winterson’s belief in love, beauty, and most of all, language, is evangelical and redemptive…it is timely and exciting to read – Rachel Cusk * The Times *
If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality, if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson…she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these things * Literary Review *
About The Author
Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
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