Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award

Description

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

“At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Jeanette Winterson
Published: 02/01/1994
Publisher: Vintage Books USA
ISBN: 9780679744474
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.20″ W

Award: 1993 Lambda Literary Awards Winner – Lesbian Fiction

About the Author
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as “a brilliant, glittering, piece of work” (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.