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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...
評分 評分因为屡受网络书店的“满减”诱惑，陈列在我家书架上的书经常遭到新书的排挤、碾压甚至“撤柜”处理，但读书人都知道，这种更新换代并不是简单叠加和替换，一旦某种属于书和书之间的微妙平衡被打破，你就需要花费五倍的时间去寻找新的平衡。但是某些作家的书就好比连体婴，就算...
評分 評分I always like JW’s writing. When this book came out in 2011, I ordered it but did not read it immediately. I thought that it was the fact-version of Oranges are not the only fruit. The online bookstore introduces the book this way: "Heartbreaking and funn...
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最喜歡的女作傢之一
评分The wider we read, the freer we become, collapsing the space between fact and fiction, as the energy of art is not time-bound.
评分最喜歡的女作傢之一
评分人生從一場錯位開始，然後揭露，舔舐傷口，直到意識到不管你愛或者不愛我，生活就在哪裏。幸福和正常都是一種選擇。
评分self-salvation, we wanna a way out, probably insane, but we are happy this way, safe and freedom and being wanted
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