![]() Winterson has written seven novels since. The novel is still perhaps Winterson's strongest, in large part because of the precision with which she described the sexual and intellectual confinements of an evangelical household. Jeanette, as the narrator is called, would create her own gospel, complete with chapters called "Genesis," "Exodus" and so on, and look after her own salvation. ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator's penchant for mythmaking and metaphor stood as a rebuke to the Biblical literalism of her parents, as well as the sexual bigotry thus condoned. Her first novel, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" (1987), interlarded retooled Arthurian legends and fairy tales of her own devising into a realistic autobiographical story of coming-of-age and coming out as a lesbian. Jeanette Winterson has always possessed an extravagantly metaphorical imagination. The prisoner, that is, needs first to be trapped in order to be sprung - something only the more true when it comes to the literature of the fantastic. $23.įiction seeks to deliver life from mere literalism, to release people and things into a significance beyond themselves the difficulty is that it must first enclose life within plausible walls of concrete description. ![]()
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