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Sexing the Cherry (Winterson, Jeanette)
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Set in 17th century London, Sexing the Cherry is about the journeys taken by the boisterous Dog-Woman and her son Jordan: journeys across seas to find bananas and pineapples; journeys through time that weave snatches of the present with tales of Charles 1 and Oliver Cromwell; journeys in search of the self. As mothers go, the Dog-Woman takes some beating. She's a giant, wrapped in a skirt that could "serve as a sail for some wartorn ship" and strong enough to fling an elephant into the air. She's hideous too, with smallpox scars on her face where fleas live, a flat nose and black, broken teeth. To top it all, she's a "fantasist, a liar and a murderer". But her son, Jordan, is proud of her--who else has a mother who can hold a dozen oranges in her mouth at once?
Like the best of Winterson's writing, such as Oranges are not the Only Fruit and The Passion, the novel is engaging, ambitious and contrary. Alongside a hearty historical realism, young girls swoon in locked towers that don't exist, islands slip sideways in time and mysterious diseases wipe out towns and cities. Even though Sexing the Cherry is short, it is impossible to read it in a straight line--fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the text and it's hard to resist chasing them. There is an exceptional playfulness at work too--an unravelling of the most solid of historical facts and fantastically unconventional fairy tales in which princesses smash the skulls of their princes with silver candlesticks or become worn and grey "like old sweaters". --Jane Honey
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Bizarre images and bawdy laughter galvanize this splendid English farce about a prodigious giantess and her explorer son in 17th-century London. Jordan fetches the first pineapple to the court of Charles II, while his mother, The Dog Woman, wreaks vengeance upon Puritans in a brothel. The plague; the flying princesses who defy laws of the courts and gravity; Jordan's travels to the floating city and the botanical wonders of the New World--the tale nips easily in and out of history and fantasy. The two characters eventually merge into the grievously polluted life of modern London. Metaphors abound with polemics on environmental concerns and politics of past and present. Not for the Jackie Collins set: readers need a background in surrealism to follow this story.
- Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
- Maurice Taylor, Brunswick Cty. Lib., Southport, N.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Sexing the Cherry is one of the most incredible texts I have ever been exposed to. From the outset, Winterson asks (or rather forces) the reader to suspend all their ideas about life and the nature of reality. Suddenly we are tightrope walking, visiting the world where "love is an epidemic", or standing with Jordan as he eats his first pineapple. I was amazed by this novel and along with AVA by Carole Maso, it is the best thing I have read.
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This is the first Winterson book I've ever read, but, rest assured, I'll read more... The thing that is great about this book is that WInterson weaves these seemingly unrelated storylines and fairy tales and, sometimes, mere images and concepts together into this wildly imaginative and intellectually challenging souffle' of a book. I had never considered time like I do now. I had never even questioned so many of the basic ideas and concepts that I once held dear, until this book ripped them to pieces and said, "All that stuff is just crap you have been taught to believe. Why not start figuring it out for yourself?" And that is what I am trying to do. Thank God for Jeanette Winterson. She is jewel.
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This is an amazing book! The title may make people think it is a preverted book but no! When I first decided to read it I was a bit close minded. But after the first few pages the author lured me into her tale. Being 13 I got a lot of negative comments about reading this book. I do not think I have read anything that had made me think so much in a long time. Sexing the Cherry is sort of a philosophy book only it is done in a story and it is not at all like reading a philosophy book. You do stop and just think about what you read. I think Sexing the Cherry should be required reading for everyone. I thank God I found this book. READ IT! Warning: If you do not like books that require thinking then do not read this.
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Reading this book was one of the least satisfying uses of time in my life. It was as fun as eating fish gone bad. It's memory still haunts me. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 18. Mai 2000 von Edward A. Olson
Rich, Imaginative, Comical
CHERRY was my first experience reading Winterson. Once I got used to her spare, comical style, I was pulled straight into her magical abyss, intoxicated by it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
100 Years of Solitude meets Mother Goose
This was my first Winterson novel. Although the book at first may seem whimsical and even silly, when given a closer look a deeper subject matter can be found. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Januar 2000 von Yamara
perhaps you're missing something...
While Sexing is not my favorite Winterson novel, I can't help to reply to comments about it being disorganized and cobbled together from random plotlines. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. März 1999 veröffentlicht
A wasted opportunity, her arrogance suppresses the ideas.
If you are the type to read a book and simply accept that the message is the important thing then this book is a winner for you. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 6. März 1999 veröffentlicht
This book fires the imagination, yet warms the heart.
A delightful little book filled with mirth, quirky images, and lively prose. With much of the action set in the 17th Century, the story revolves around the adventures of two main... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Februar 1999 veröffentlicht
Best modern author!
I have not been so delighted with the raw talent and sensual imagery of a writer since JK Huysmans. The fact that this woman is writing, publishing, and being appreciated in the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. November 1998 veröffentlicht
Savory Fiction
Sexing the Cherry is a true treat, ripe with humor, irony, pathos, and knowingly cultivated by a writer's fertile, elegant, and subtle yet so-incisive prose! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Oktober 1998 veröffentlicht
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