Art and Lies Edition - Hardcover

Winterson, Jeanette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224031457 ISBN 13: 9780224031455

Publisher: Trafalgar Square, 1994

Synopsis

A novel by the author of "Oranges are not the Only Fruit", which won the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1985, "The Passion", which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1987, "Sexing the Cherry" and "Written on the Body".

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"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.

"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

From the Inside Flap:

ost 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.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Trafalgar Square
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0224031457
• ISBN 13: 9780224031455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232