About this title: Instead of growing up to become a missionary as her mother has planned for her, Jess Debden falls in love with another girl, rejects the strident evangelism of her family and walks out of her small Lancashire home town to go to Oxford. Other work by the author includes "Sexing the Cherry".
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Description: Good. 0802135161 Paperback, Condition: Good; somewhat worn, with some underlining/highlightling within; will work well as a reading copy. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Pandora Press
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780863580420ISBN:0863580424
Description: A good reading copy only. Previous owners name inscribed inside front. May have underlining or highlighting throughout. -, Trade PaperBack, Good / read more
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Description: Very Good. 0802135161 Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. Shelf wear and tear to the cover. read more
Description: Very Good. 0802135161 Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. Shelf wear and tear to the cover. read more
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"I liked this more than I liked Sexing The Cherry. It just seemed to flow easier, to come together better. There were fewer moments where I sat up and said, 'that's beautiful', but it worked better for me as a whole -- the weird Arthurian/fairy tale interludes notwithstanding, even. I'm wary of labelling it autobiography or memoir, based on what I read, though goodreads reviews tell me that's what it is -- at least semi-autobiography.
Jeannette Winterson's writing is lovely. At parts I didn't really 'get' the imagery -- like the orange devil or whatever it was -- and didn't see the point, but the writing kept me interested anyway. The relationships between her and various other girls interested me -- and reminded me of my first fumbling forays into sexuality, too.
Strangely enough, though it worked better for me, I don't have the same urge to own it as I did Sexing The Cherry. I can't picture myself going back to it, not even for particular special passages (which is why I own Sexing The Cherry).
Easier to read, easier to relate to, yet less enchanting, I suppose."
"I think I need to go back and reread any of Jeanette Winterson's books that I read when I was younger. I really enjoyed the tone that Winterson writes in that is the kind of quirky right-on-the-money tone that startles a guffaw out of you in the middle of a dull or somber situation. This book was her first and is autobiographical. It tells of Winterson's upbringing in an extremely Christian evangelical family where she was primed to be a missionary. At the same time that Winterson is deeply involved in her church and her religion, her sexuality blossoms. What ensues is, of course, a deep contradiction of Christianity in which she is ostracized from the community. The story is merely one example in a sordid history of too many where religion (fill in the blank with your particular choice) is twisted to fit the prejudices and limitations of the people practicing it. Religion never functions apart from psychology and relationship dynamics, and this story is an excellent example of this. The only parts I didn't really like as much were the mythical fairy tale interludes. I'm not sure they were necessary."
"What a refreshingly odd book about a young girl growing up in an evangelical household in England and awakening to the fact that she is a lesbian...and there are lots of interesting sidebars and fables and colorful characters and every so often you run across something like this:
It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance of that you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something that you do not understand is the true nature of evil.
"Is this novel concerned more with sexual politics or postmodern practice? If the task for the lesbian feminist postmodern author (say that 3 times fast) is to "displace and explode the binary," as Laura Doan argues, then I'm not sure Oranges has accomplished its aim, because binarism is alive and well by the end. Winterson pays lip service to postmodernist literary tactics and does not extend a critical eye far enough. Instead of utilizing tactics of unsettling, binary-displacement/"explosion", etc., Oranges as an example of postmodern literature seems to be based rather on techniques like intertextuality and parody which, while wholly entertaining, don't necessarily enact the cultural havoc that such an undertaking has potential for."
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