Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
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| Author:
| Winterson, Jeanette |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8021-3516-2 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1997 |
| Publisher: | Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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| Imprint: | Grove Press |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.00 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.
Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.