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Book : Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? - Winterson,..

Modelo 02120873
Fabricante o sello Grove Press
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Precio:   $54,879.00
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-Titulo Original : Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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Grove Press

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Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.-VogueWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Wintersons] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling, but it made her the writer she is.-The New York Times[Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time-searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us. . . . In Why Be Happy,, [Wintersons] emotional life is laid bare . . . [in] a bravely frank narrative of truly coming undone. For someone in love with disguises, Wintersons openness is all the more moving; theres nothing left to hide, and nothing left to hide behind.-ElleJeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing 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 best-selling 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 classes.Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life’s work to find happiness. It is 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 a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about other people’s literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.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. Review Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous. It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages. . . . Singular and electric . . . [Wintersons] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling, but it made her the writer she is.-The New York TimesShes one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time-searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us. . . She explores not only the structure of storytelling byt the interplay of past, present, and future, blending science fiction, realism, and a deep love of literature and history. . . . In Why Be Happy, [Wintersons] emotional life is laid bare. [Her] struggle to first accept and then love herself yields a bravely frank narrative of truly coming undone. For someone in love with disguises, Wintersons openness is all the more moving; theres nothing left to hide, and nothing left to hide behind.-A.M. Homes, ElleTo read Jeanette Winterson is to love her. . . . The fierce, curious, brilliant British writer is winningly candid in Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? . . . [Winterson has] such a joy for life and love and language that she quickly becomes her very own one-woman band-one that, luckily for us, keeps playing on.-O, the Oprah MagazineMagnificent . . . What begins as a tragicomic tale of triumph over a soul-destroying childhood becomes something rougher and richer in the later passages. . . . Winterson writes with heartrending precision. . . . Ferociously funny and unfathomably generous, Wintersons exorcism-in-writing is an unforgettable quest for belonging, a tour de force of
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