SEXING THE CHERRY

Jeanette Winterson

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 1989

Beschreibung

A near fine copy in the dark blue boards with gilt titles to the spine and decoration to the front cover, just slightly bumped at the head of the spine. With the integral silk place marker. No inscriptions. ***In a near fine illustrated and attractive dustwrapper. Not price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of £12.95 net. ***SEXING THE CHERRY - synopsis courtesy of Jeanette Winterson's website: 'This is the story of Jordan, an orphan found floating on the River Thames, and his keeper, The Dog Woman, a huge and monstrous creature with a powerful right hook and a wide vocabulary. She is perhaps the only woman in English fiction confident enough to use filth as a fashion accessory. ***I set this in the seventeenth century, around the beheading of Charles the First, because I had more to do exploring the past as energetic space. I wanted to build another word-dependent world, not restricted either by realism or contemporaneity. The past is strange. We have never been there and we can never go there. I have never recognised the past as a document, rather I understand it as a kind of lumber room, full of trunks of old clothes and odd mementos. There are as many narratives as there are guesses. ***Sexing the Cherry was a narrative I could construct around a loosely known set of facts.' ***A nice collectable copy of Winterson's third novel, after 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' and 'The Passion'. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51066

Bibliografische Details

Titel: SEXING THE CHERRY

Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1989

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: First Edition