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| Original Title: | Sexing the Cherry |
| ISBN: | 0802135781 (ISBN13: 9780802135780) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dog Woman |
Jeanette Winterson
Paperback | Pages: 167 pages Rating: 3.81 | 15177 Users | 921 Reviews
Details Containing Books Sexing the Cherry
| Title | : | Sexing the Cherry |
| Author | : | Jeanette Winterson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 167 pages |
| Published | : | August 10th 1998 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Historical. Historical Fiction |
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In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan’s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.Rating Containing Books Sexing the Cherry
Ratings: 3.81 From 15177 Users | 921 ReviewsAssessment Containing Books Sexing the Cherry
A very rewarding reading experience!My favorite quote:The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.Winterson is one of my favourite authors, and Sexing the Cherry was a long-outstanding book for me within her oeuvre. The novel is a slim but very well reviewed piece which I was eager to read. Telling the story of Jordan, who was abandoned beside a river in that age-old Bible parody style, Sexing the Cherry is immediately captivating. Winterson's language is both playful and creative, and the dual perspectives of Jordan and his adoptive mother are incredibly effective. The historical setting
I...I don't know what just happened. I think I need to go reread some parts of this book, or at least think it over again because I am so darn confused.But as for what I did understand, there are parts of this book that are bewitching, and then there are parts that drag so much it is as if there is no life in them.This was a vintage twin set, basically I got the book for free along with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The set is called Vintage Monsters. So I guess I'll spend tonight thinking about
Ah....Jeanette Winterson, how I loved 'The Passion', it was perfectly whimsical, the perfect blend of realism and fantasy, a bit of history thrown in and even a bit of romance.Now, what the hell were you thinking with 'Sexing the Cherry'? I just don't know where you were going with this.I was actually really disappointed with Winterson's effort here. After reading the Passion a couple of years ago, I was looking forward to another dose of her kookiness and alternative history spinning. What I
I have lost count of the times I've read this book by now, but I first read it as part of a paper on post-war postmodern British literature, and thought and thought and thought about what the wartime experience of PTSD and reliving trauma opened up for people (writers!) in terms of Time and contemplation [insert nod to Kurt Vonnegut here].Jeannette Winterson's idea of Time in this book is what truly makes it: Sexing The Cherry is about the way we do (and do not) experience time: as clock or as
Surprisingly, this was too strange and disjointed for my taste. Packed with odd sexual encounters (although not as pornographic as the title suggested) and murders contradicting some of its religious themes and tone of justice, the inclusion of time and love as concepts did not seem enough to tie everything Winterson was trying to say in this novel of attachments, outcast characters, known mythologies and fragments of histories reimagined with reflective feminism to boot. Still, I will not deny
Wah. Some of Winterson's works make me feel as if I completely missing out on something, like it's going straight over my head. Which is likely the case considering I am not the most intellectual of sorts but I don't like being reminded of this when trying to enjoy a novel. Further, with most books that are a little too 'smart' for me, I usually understand why. Either it's the content, or the heavy vocabulary or some such thing. But Winterson ... sometimes I feel like I just don't get it. Rather
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