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Title: The Passion by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0802135226 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 5
Summary: The most beautiful piece of literature ever written!
Comment: Having now read this book 14 times, I am still in awe of JW's understanding of the vulnerability of men and women in love. Every time I read this book I learn something new. This is the one book I always give as a gift and use quotes from frequently. The prose of this novel is simply the most beautiful and poetic I have ever read... and that's saying something coming from a man who is sometimes intimidated by feminist literature. The story of Henri and Villanelle will surely touch any one with a heart especially the line that reads, ' when I lie in her arms no dark days appear... and I truly believe our children will change the world.' For all those who have read The Passion, I highly recommend "Written on the Body". Heartfelt thanks to JW for writing such an incredible story!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Heartstopping paragraphs on every page!
Comment: Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life. Only a drama will do and while the fireworks last the sky is a different colour. -Jeanette Winterson
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Henri, a poor country boy joins the French military to follow his passion: Bonaparte. His tour of duty takes him on Napoleon's marches, and one is treated to an inside of look at being a soldier in Bonaparte's army. Napoleon's passion for fighting has him take his armies into Moscow. Concurrently, a woman gives birth to a child in Venice. The child's father is a Boatman, and those children, according to legend, can walk on water. The child turns out to be a girl, but is nonetheless a Boatman's Daughter. She has a passion for gambling, and meets the love of her life and finds another passion, in the process losing her heart. After her heart has been broken, she marries a cruel, fat Frenchman and exults in his passion for debasing her. Her destiny takes her to Moscow, where she meets Henri. Henri's passion for the Boatman's daughter proves to be no small thing in his own destiny.
Set in magical, eternal cities, encompassing a time which captivates the imagination, and written in beautiful prose, this work is emminently readable, and entirely riveting. There are beautiful heart-stopping phrases worth quoting on every page -- words which, by their beauty, make this spellbinding tale a lyrical journey of discovery. There are many kinds of passions in this piece, and following each to its end, and savoring each as it comes, is a bittersweet and very poignant experience. Do it! Highly Recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: An overlooked masterpiece!
Comment: I think this is an often overlooked book among Jeanette Winterson's masterpieces. (Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Sexing the Cherry are generally the ones people have read). As in her other novels, Winterson blurrs the lines of the everything we take as "fact" or "true" and in the process challenges are notions of history, time, gender and language. Henri, one of NApolean's chef, falls in love with Vilanelle, a near-mythical gondolier from Venice. Together they explore the boundaries of passion, love and history in a way that makes you rethink everything you have ever assumed about gender and society. I think Winterson is a master at what she writes -- truly turning upside down any preconceived notions the reader may have and allowing us to enter a world that resembles are own in many ways, but is not the world we know. Anyone familiar with feminist theory would be particularly interested in the way that Winterson manipulates her tale and her words
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Title: Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0679744479 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0802135781 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0802135161 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0375725059 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: 09 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Gut Symmetries by Jeanette Winterson ISBN: 0679777423 Publisher: Vintage Books Pub. Date: August, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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