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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.
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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?
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"Winterson's most ambitious work...beautiful writing, shaped line by line into word sculptures....I salute Winterson's skill at word-turning and word-spinning, her ability to mint shining images in a few golden lines." — The Independent on Sunday, U.K.
"Several leaps forward in sophistication and technique from The Passion, which won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize....a smooth-running...piece of machinery, which throws out... brilliant sparks." — The Montreal Gazette
"Dazzling...truly exciting to read." — The Times, U.K.
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"Winterson soars with Art and Lies." — The Calgary Herald
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"If words were diamonds and sentences necklaces, Jeanette Winterson would be the De Beers of literature." — Entertainment Weekly
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"Several leaps forward in sophistication and technique from The Passion, which won the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize....a smooth-running...piece of machinery, which throws out... brilliant sparks." — The Montreal Gazette
"Dazzling...truly exciting to read." — The Times, U.K.
"Powerful." — The Toronto Sun
"Winterson soars with Art and Lies." — The Calgary Herald
"Expands the gender game...hurtles along so breathtakingly...Intriguing...Profound." — Now magazine
"If words were diamonds and sentences necklaces, Jeanette Winterson would be the De Beers of literature." — Entertainment Weekly
One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "A series of intense, artful musings that are exhilarating and visionary. . . . Unsettling yet strangely satisfying."--Newsday.
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- Publication date2014
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The best of Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding novels, reissued in a bold new look ahead of the publication of her new book, 12 BYTES'Brave and ambitious' IndependentIn a near-future London, Sappho, Picasso and Handel each set upon the same plan - to flee the city by train. Finding themselves fellow passengers, the poet, the painter and the musician discover their fates drawn together by the curious agency of a book.As stories within stories unfold and journeys intersect, another world comes to the fore - one of painful beauty, where language has the power to heal.'Winterson's belief in love, beauty, and most of all, language, is evangelical and redemptive.it is timely and exciting to read' Rachel Cusk, The Times 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. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I live? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780099598282
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