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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing.

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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Jeanette Winterson - Publisher : David R. Godine, Publisher

From the book : We’re still on the phone in our phone boxes. She tells me that my success is from the Devil, keeper of the wrong crib. She confronts me with the fact that I have used my own name in the novel – if it is a story, why is the main character called Jeanette? Why?I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t setting my story against hers. It was my survival from the very beginning....
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To not die of boredom	Autumn	To my female lover	Not easy to read	New	Between 10 and 20$
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