Art and lies by jeanette winterson 1995, hardcover for. Nov 25, 2002 jeanette winterson gives the orange word lecture, what is art for. The publishers blurb on the back said it was a daring novel that burns with phosphorescent prose on every page. Vintage idly, i picked up this book in a used book shop. We were not bothered by the flowery poetry, though some may be.
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The first edition of the novel was published in 2000, and was written by jeanette winterson. Jeanette winterson took off like a meteor with her magical first novel but then fell to earth under the weight of vitriolic personal attack. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Wintersons prolonged and steady infusions of poetry into her novel turn the medium gaseous. The world and other places 1998, and a book of essays about art and culture, art objects, published in 1995. Three stories are told, refrains that echo from one voice to the other and metaphors are reformed in new contexts. Winterson s own passionate vision of art is presented here, provocatively and personally, in pieces on modernism, autobiography, style, painting, the future of fiction, in two essays on virginia woolf, and more intimately in pieces where she describes her relationship to her work and the books that she loves. In her highly experimental fifth novel after written on the body, winterson abandons a linear plot in favor of a kaleidoscopic, polysemous study of ruptured lives and artistic pursuits. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
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