Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson - ISBN: 9781784879044
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Growing up queer, evangelical, and in love: a juicy rebellion.

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    29 October 2024

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Summary

‘Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn’t matter what’

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson’s explosive first novel, a gripping coming-of-age story, a queer romance, a modern classic.

This is the story of Jeanette, born to be one of God’s elect- adopted by a fanatical Pentecostal family and ablaze with her own zeal…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781784879044
ISBN-10:1784879045
Author:Jeanette Winterson
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:29 October 2024
Weight:184g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

This lesbian coming of age story set in northern England doesn’t seem to have aged a bit * Independent *Characterised by Winterson’s bold and experimental style, this is a book with darkness and light about what it means to live your own truth * iNews *

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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