Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
by Winterson, Jeanette
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0802120873
- ISBN 13
- 9780802120878
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About This Item
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin. It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother. It is also a book about other people's literature, one that shows how fiction and poetry can form a string of guiding lights, a life raft that supports us when we are sinking.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging—for love, identity, home, and a mother." - From the publisher.
Synopsis
JEANETTE WINTERSON, OBE, is the author of ten novels, including The Passion , Sexing the Cherry and Written on the Body , a book of short stories, The World and Other Places , a collection of essays, Art Objects , as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. She has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.
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- Bookseller
- Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64665
- Title
- Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
- Author
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint
- ISBN 10
- 0802120873
- ISBN 13
- 9780802120878
- Publisher
- Grove
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- memoir, Jeanette Winterson, LGBT+
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