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Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.
Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
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Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
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1. 这不是一篇女同的爱情故事，甚至不关乎女同本身。 今年53岁的Jeanette Winterson写这部回忆录，与其说是疗伤，不如更像一个追问。她不像一个第一次审视自己伤口的人，诧异、愤怒、然后再在某种自我催眠的叙述中得着解脱和安慰。她acknowledge那些伤口，把命运的错误或者...
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人生从一场错位开始，然后揭露，舔舐伤口，直到意识到不管你爱或者不爱我，生活就在哪里。幸福和正常都是一种选择。
评分作者自传。看完直接爱上简妮特温特森。
评分作者自传。看完直接爱上简妮特温特森。
评分是关于失去与寻找自我的一本书 真的很动人很powerful 最后两页我不舍得看完
评分一度听到哭T_T Jeanette带着女友回去见养母，她说“I'm happy when I'm with Janet.”母亲沉默了一会儿说“Why be happy when you can be normal？”找不到电子版一定要买本实体书留着！
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