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  by lalexiou

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Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Description: "With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's"With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
"The narrator of 'Written On The Body' has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of cliches and categories, as a phenomenon as viceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue--and as strange as an undiscovered continent."...

2007-11-15

  by crankyspank

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: british fiction novel favorites

Description: "With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's"With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
"The narrator of 'Written On The Body' has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of cliches and categories, as a phenomenon as viceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue--and as strange as an undiscovered continent."...

2006-09-22

  by chaoticgirl

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeanette Winterson

2006-07-21

  by rxw

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Jeanette Winterson

2005-12-22

  by untouchables

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: —

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: gay love novel relationship

Description: "With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's"With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
"The narrator of 'Written On The Body' has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of cliches and categories, as a phenomenon as viceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue--and as strange as an undiscovered continent."...

2005-10-30

  by lacandona

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: favorite

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: british relationships glbt gender borderlands

Description: A beautiful book, free of gender and full of amazing prose.

2005-09-09

  by octopusouphut

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Jeanette Winterson

Tags: school fiction gay novel

Description: "With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's"With the same stylistic daring and emotional energy that have made her one of Englands's most celebrated young writers, Jeanette Winterson has written her most beguilingly seductive novel to date.
"The narrator of 'Written On The Body' has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. And as Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of cliches and categories, as a phenomenon as viceral as blood and organs, bone and tissue--and as strange as an undiscovered continent."...

2005-09-09