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Her strict pentecostal evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, oranges are not the only fruit, published in 1985. The powerbook ebook by jeanette winterson rakuten kobo. While many other novels are still nursing hangovers from the 20th century, the powerbook has risen early to greet the challenge of the new millennium. Imagine an elegant married woman who, in paris, meets someone and takes him as a lover for a night, no strings attachedthis being no unusual practice for said woman.
Jeanette winterson, quote from the powerbook in this life, you have to be your own hero. In the following pages youll find excerpts from all the books, my own view of what they are and how they work, and an easy way to buy them. Her subsequent novels, including sexing the cherry, the passion, written on the body, and the powerbook, have also. Adopted by pentecostal parents she was raised to be a missionary.
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