Jeanette Winterson: Written on the Body
Written on the Body
Buch
- Random House UK Ltd, 09/2014
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780099598275
- Bestellnummer: 5417745
- Umfang: 190 Seiten
- Gewicht: 143 g
- Maße: 198 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 17 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.9.2014
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
Jeanette Winterson OBE was born in Manchester. Adopted by Pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary. This did and didn t work out.Discovering early the power of books she left home at 16 to live in a Mini and get on with her education. After graduating from Oxford University she worked for a while in the theatre and published her first novel at 25. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit is based on her own upbringing but using herself as a fictional character. She scripted the novel into a BAFTA-winning BBC drama. 27 years later she re-visited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children s books, non-fiction and screenplays. She writes regularly for the Guardian. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London.
She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.