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Title: Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd (Vintage International) by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0-679-76270-1 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.03 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Difficult to put down
Comment: Jeanette Winterson's strong command of the language combined with a concise, confident direction make Art and Lies a pleasure to read. Filled with allegory and farcical situations reminiscent of Jean Genet and William S. Borroughs she tells of a sexually ambiguous surgeon named Handel; a mentally and physically molested woman artist named Picasso; and the poet Sappho who shares a train ride with the other two. What ensues is a history of each carefully developed character and how they intertwine with the others, unbeknownst to themselves. In turn misconseptions of literature, art, sex, and poetry are placed on the slab to be dissected with each of their lives. Art, she says is not meant to reflect life; a life which cannot help but reflect our own escape from adolescence. Rather, art is a product of imagination which creates its own rules and laws. The conclusion is so satisfying I was disappointed only that Winterson's fantastic imagery and play of light, color, and depth had to come to and end.
Rating: 4
Summary: Inspiring philosophical meditation
Comment: "There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies," Winterson reports in this philosophical narrative which intertwines three lives. The surgeon Handel is running away from the mistake he made on the operating table. Self-named Picasso is a painter whose life has been constricted and nearly destroyed by her family, until her current escape. Sappho has wandered the ages following her poetry and reflecting on her loves and on how the world omits parts of her life. These stories, along with a fourth that is about a prostitute looking for her lover, cohere in Winterson's sparkling language and form a mosaic that explores art and love, living and sexuality, identity and consequences. "Art & Lies" defies the structure of storytelling and instead vividly illustrates the human condition. I didn't feel that the ending brought the narrative to any sort of completion, but overall I found the book inspiring on several levels.
Rating: 5
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Comment: Art and Lies is in my humble opinion the best work of fiction (or is it?) I have ever read. It's dense, profoundly intertextual, and at times absolutely poetic. Please don't be fooled by Publius' obviously misguided review (for example, the comparison between Sophokles and Sappho is flawed from the start, and one might consider reading a bit about the historical reception of Sappho's work before making such bold statements); if Winterson will enter literary history as a footnote to a footnote, it will be one that disrupts the entire textual frame itself.
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Title: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0802135226 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The World and Other Places: Stories by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0375702369 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0679777423 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0375725059 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0679768203 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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