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Written on the Body
Jeanette Winterson
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Literature 1992
Written on the Body
body as textgenderless desirelover-with-cancer grief
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Synopsis
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
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Jeanette Winterson, 1992 — Written on the Body
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
Editorial note
Keeps memory in play with a different literature voice.
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
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Why this work is here
The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.
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