Jeanette Winterson
Paperback | Pages: 167 pages Rating: 3.81 | 15177 Users | 921 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Sexing the Cherry |
| ISBN: | 0802135781 (ISBN13: 9780802135780) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Dog Woman |
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In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the world like Gulliver, though he finds that the world’s most curious oddities come from his own mind. Winterson leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan’s fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that shoots the reader from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.Particularize Appertaining To Books Sexing the Cherry
| Title | : | Sexing the Cherry |
| Author | : | Jeanette Winterson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 167 pages |
| Published | : | August 10th 1998 by Grove Press (first published January 1st 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Rating Appertaining To Books Sexing the Cherry
Ratings: 3.81 From 15177 Users | 921 ReviewsCrit Appertaining To Books Sexing the Cherry
I really wanted to enjoy this book and whilst I appreciate that it is written very well in a literary sense, it did not appeal to me at all. The relentless misandry made it quite a boring read, despite its short length. I could see flashes of brilliance in this book (the dancing princesses, the character of dog-woman), however none of it was fleshed out to any sort of degree to make me want to read on. All in all a difficult 140 pages to trawl through. I can't help thinking that if it were aThe juxtaposition of the stories of the giant woman living on the banks of the Thames with her dogs and her adopted son who is drawn to exploring the world in the mid 1600s was interesting. The incorporation of the stories of women who although kept by men for their pleasure are still able to lead lives of their own and escape were interesting asides as was the story of the 12 dancing princesses. The drawings of the banana and the pineapple at the top of the paragraph when the narrator changed
Painfully pretentious and drowning in a mess of its failed aspirations, it's always a bad thing when an author becomes too fond of the sound of their own voice. Characters, ideas, feelings, and stories are lost under the weight of what I can only presume is Winterson's creative vanity. While arguably intelligent she lacks the poetic ability required to pull off a style like this, using language which distracts and detracts from the world she is struggling to present. A wonderful imagination is
Once I stood in a museum looking at a "painting" hanging on the wall. It had all the components of a painting: the canvas, lines and squiggles rendered in pencil, the artist's signature, and some blotches of color here and there. I read the review on the little plaque next to it which described what it was made of, its post-modern symbolism, it's meaning. I didn't see that at all.Another time I put on a CD to listen to. It had all the components of "music": instruments, notes, pauses, a musician
In Sexing the Cherry, Jordan is found floating in the River Thames. A large woman, known only as the Dog Woman, rescues baby Jordan, and brings him up like her own son. But Jordan, having been born of the river, belongs to the river, and it isnt long before the flowing waters reclaim him once again, as he sets of with sails to travel the world.The book is told with alternating narratives, first Jordan, then the mother, then Jordan again and so forth. But while the mothers narratives sound like
bizzarly profound.food for thought:"The Hopi, an Indian tribe, have a language as sophisticated as ours, but no tenses for the past, present and future. The division does not exist. What does this say about time?Matter, that thing the most solid and well-known, which you are holding in your hands and which makes up your body, is now known to be mostly empty space. Empty space and points of light. What does this say about the reality of the world"(frontispiece)?"Truth to tell, I could have
"I had sex with a man once: in and out. A soundtrack of grunts and a big sigh at the end" This being the third book I've read by Winterson, I've concluded that she is certainly not the average writer. She's incredibly unique, and there is an oddity in her works. Winterson is an acquired taste, but she's definitely "my taste" This book is set in England, and the story jumps back and forth in time. During this, we meet various characters. I think the dog woman has to be my favourite. Weaved
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