Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Description

“To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her.”–O, the Oprah Magazine

A beloved contemporary feminist classic and pioneering work of autofiction–a funny, poignant exploration of a young girl’s quirky passage into adulthood

Jeanette Winterson’s extraordinary career began at the age of twenty-five with the publication of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. An international bestseller and winner of the prestigious Whitbread Award for Best First Fiction, it is considered a classic of contemporary literature and taught widely around the world, in courses ranging from core undergraduate classes to women’s studies and queer studies.

Jeanette is a bright and rebellious orphan who is adopted into an evangelical household in the dour, industrial north of England. Her youth is spent embroidering grim religious mottoes and shaking her little tambourine for Jesus. But as this budding missionary comes of age and comes to terms with her unorthodox sexuality, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household collapses. Jeanette’s insistence on listening to truths of her own heart and mind–and on reporting them with wit and passion–makes for an unforgettable chronicle of an extraordinary passage into adulthood.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Published: 08/20/1997
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802135162
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.10″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author

Born in Manchester, England, JEANETTE WINTERSON is the author of more than twenty books, including the national bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.