WINTERSON JEANETTE

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Στο Πάθος, το μυθιστόρημα της Ζανέτ Ουίντερσον που εκδόθηκε το 1987 και απέσπασε το βραβείο JOHN LLEWELYN RHYS, η ιστορία γίνεται μύθος και ο μύθος ιστορία. Το βιβλίο αποτελείται από τις παράλληλες αφηγήσεις ενός νεαρού Γάλλου που λατρεύει τον Ναπολέοντα και της Βιλανέλ, μιας Βενετσιάνας τυχοδιώκτριας, που είναι ερωτευμένη με μια γοητευτική κυρία της αριστοκρατίας. Οι δύο ήρωες συναντιούνται κι ανάμεσά τους δημιουργείται μια ιδιότυπη σχέση, φιλική, ερωτική, σχεδόν αιμομικτική. Η ατμόσφαιρα του βιβλίου, ταυτόχρονα ρεαλιστική και ονειρική, ...
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(P/B) WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness, about lessons in love, the search for a mother and a journey into madness and out again. It ...
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Frankissstein (χαρτόδετη έκδοση)
Τι θα συμβεί όταν ο άνθρωπος δεν θα είναι πλέον το ευφυέστερο ον στον πλανήτη; Η Τζάνετ Γουίντερσον (γενν. 1959) μάς δείχνει πόσο κοντά είμαστε σε αυτό το μέλλον. Η ιστορία ξεκινά το 1816, όταν η Μαίρη Σέλεϊ γράφει τον Φρανκενστάιν για να διασκεδάσει τον Λόρδο Μπάιρον και τον σύζυγό της Πέρσι. Μ' ένα μεγάλο χρονικό άλμα στην εποχή μας η Γουίντερσον παρουσιάζει τον τρανς Ρι Σέλεϊ που ερωτεύεται έναν ειδήμονα στην τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, μια ομάδα γιατρών που προσπαθούν να ξαναζωντανέψουν πτώματα, αλλά και τον Ρον που κατασκευάζει κούκλες-ρομπότ...
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(P/B) ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession....
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(P/B) WRITTEN ON THE BODY
This is a love story and, like all Winterson's novels, a philosophical meditation, this time on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. The object is a married woman, Louise, and the narrator is her lover, gender undeclared. The affair intensifies beyond anything either of the lovers has ever known or hoped for. And as they dissect their passion and longing, Jeanette Winterson traces the topography of desire. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) ORANGES ARE NOT THE ONLY FRUIT
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) FRANKISSSTEIN
Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful.'Inspired by Mary Shelley's gothic classic Frankenstein, discover this audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire. As Brexit grips Britain, Ry, a young transgender doctor, is falling in love. The object of their misguided affection: the celebrated AI-specialist, Professor Victor Stein. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his Mum again, is set to make his fortune with a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Ranging from 1816, when ...
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ΤΟ ΧΑΣΜΑ ΤΟΥ ΧΡΟΝΟΥ
Σε μια ανεμοδαρμένη πόλη του αμερικάνικου Νότου, τη Νέα Βοημία, μια νύχτα ένας άγνωστος εγκαταλείπει ένα βρέφος στην είσοδο ενός νοσοκομείου. Είναι η μικρή Περντίτα, την οποία ο πατέρας της, τρελός από ζήλια, δεν αναγνωρίζει και εξορίζει για πάντα από τη ζωή του και από το Λονδίνο. Δεκαεπτά χρόνια αργότερα η Περντίτα αγνοεί βασικά στοιχεία για την ταυτότητα και την καταγωγή της, αλλά σύντομα θα ανακαλύψει ποια είναι η οικογένειά της. Η εκδοχή του σαιξπηρικού Χειμωνιάτικου παραμυθιού δια χειρός Jeanette Winterson αφηγείται μια σπαρακτική ισ...
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(P/B) SEXING THE CHERRY
Set in the 17th century, Sexing the Cherry celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING
Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark's, a nineteenth-century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow, and the intertwining of myth and reality, of storytelling and experience, lead her through her own particular darkness. A story of mutability, talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in...
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(P/B) CHRISTMAS DAYS
For years Jeanette Winterson has written a new story at Christmas time and here she brings together twelve of her brilliantly imaginative, funny, and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the twelve days of Christmas. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE STONE GODS
The Stone Gods is one of Jeanette Winterson's most imaginative novels -- an interplanetary love story; a traveller's tale; a hymn to the beauty of the world On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Will they - and we - ever find a safe landing place...
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(P/B) LOVE
‘The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories’ How do we love? With romance. With work. Through heartbreak. Throughout a lifetime. As a means, but not an end. Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing. Here are selections from her books about that impossible, essential force, stories and truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love. Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world's greatest wr...
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(P/B) THE DAYLIGHT GATE
Good Friday 1612. Pendle Hill. A mysterious gathering of thirteen people is interrupted by a local magistrate. Is it a witches' Sabbat? In Lancaster Castle two notorious witches await trial and certain death, while the beautiful and wealthy Alice Nutter rides to their defence. Elsewhere a starved child lurks. And a Jesuit priest and former Gunpowder plotter makes his way from France to a place he believes will offer him sanctuary. But will it? And how safe can anyone be in Witch Country? (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) THE PASSION
'What you risk reveals what you value...' The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness. Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost. As the soldier-chef's love for Napoleon turns to hate he finds the Venet...
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(P/B) ART AND LIES
"There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies". Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live? (From the pub...
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(H/B) COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain's most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality. Examining recent women's rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the...
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ΠΕΣ ΜΟΥ ΜΙΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ
"- Πες μου μια ιστορία, Πιου. - Ποια ιστορία, παιδί μου; - Την ιστορία του μυστικού του Μπέιμπελ Νταρκ. - Υπήρχε κάποια γυναίκα. - Πάντα το ίδιο λες. - Υπάρχει πάντα μια γυναίκα κάπου, παιδί μου κάποια πριγκίπισσα, κάποια μάγισσα, κάποια μητριά, κάποια γοργόνα, κάποια καλή νεράιδα, ή κάποια που είναι ωραία αλλά κακιά, ή είναι ωραία και καλή. - Είναι αυτή ολόκληρη η λίστα; - Υπάρχει και η γυναίκα που αγαπάς. - Ποια είναι αυτή; - Αυτή είναι μια άλλη ιστορία." Χωρίς μητέρα και χωρίς μέρος για να αγκυροβολήσει, η Σίλβερ μπαίνει υπό την προστ...
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(P/B) THE GAP OF TIME
A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. ...
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(P/B) FRANKISSSTEIN
From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love - against their better judgement - with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with Mum again, is set to make his fortune launching a new generation of sex dolls for lonely men everywhere. Across the Atlantic, in Phoenix, Arizona, a cryon...
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