Lighthousekeeping

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 0547541481
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lighthousekeeping written by Jeanette Winterson and published by HMH. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew—blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Pew’s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. It’s one that Silver must follow if she’s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. “In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.”—The New Yorker

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307366618
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lighthousekeeping written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Pew teaches her to “man the light” but more importantly he tells her ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life, not least those of the local inhabitants. One local, Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman who loved one woman but married another, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and regret, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal. A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way in to the rooms of our own that we secretly inhabit and the lighthouses we strive towards. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation and this shows her at her lyrical best.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408825384
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tanglewreck written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-04 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it! In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and frightening changes in time. When Silver goes on the run to try and protect herself and the Timekeeper, a remarkable and compelling adventure unfolds, full of brilliance and wit, as is befitting an author with the imagination and style of Jeanette Winterson.

Author : Susan McCaslin
Publisher : Ekstasis Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781896860145
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Housekeeping written by Susan McCaslin and published by Ekstasis Editions. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At times deceptively simple, the poems in Light Housekeeping explore the tentative presence of the soul in everyday life through reflections on teaching, writing, familial bonds and raising a child.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763595
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Written on the Body written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. “At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307763633
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gut Symmetries written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highwire artist of the English novel redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity. One starry night on a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrillingly original novel by England's most flamboyantly gifted young writer. "Winterson is unmatched among contemporary writers in her ability to conjure up new-world wonder...A beautiful, stirring and brilliant story."--Times Literary Supplement "Dazzling for [its] intelligence and inventiveness...[Winterson] is possessed of a masterly command of the language and a truly pliant imagination."--Elle "One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

Author : Helen Mather
Publisher : Dutton Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Light Horsekeeping written by Helen Mather and published by Dutton Adult. This book was released on 1970 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sonya Andermahr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350310514
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeanette Winterson written by Sonya Andermahr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive introduction to Winterson's work, Sonya Andermahr considers its significance in the context of contemporary British culture and literary history. Including an interview with the author, this guide offers an accessible reading of all Winterson's work and an overview of the varied critical reception this has received.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9781784709020
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christmas Days written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sunday TelegraphBook of the Year'Winterson?s winter tales unfailingly succeed in their endeavor to leave you aglow? - Guardian 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.

Author : Jeanette Winterson
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802194753
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? written by Jeanette Winterson and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: The “magnificent” memoir by one of the bravest and most original writers of our time—“A tour de force of literature and love” (Vogue). One of the New York Times’ “50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years” Jeanette Winterson’s bold and revelatory novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. Her internationally best-selling debut, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, and has become a staple of required reading in contemporary fiction classes. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a “singular and electric” memoir about a life’s work to find happiness (The New York Times). 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, rose to haunt the author 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 the power of literature, showing how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, or 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 story of the search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother.