Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Winterson, Jeanette)
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- ISBN: 9780802135162
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48 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: May 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
I don't get what is so great about this book
I read this book because everyone says it's a classic of lesbian literature. I don't see how it's a classic of anything. The story isn't very interesting and, except for near the end, it's hardly lesbian. Maybe it was all of the religious...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 30, 2008 Type: User Review |
Didn't really strike my fancy
Unfortunately, I think a lot of the references in the novel were lost upon me because the Ms. Winterson's use of language and locations that are unfamiliar to me as an American (the novel takes place in England). In addition, Ms. Winterson' tale...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 10, 2007 Type: User Review |
Coming Out
A girl faces the problem of coming out to her conservative family, along with their reactions to her less-than-traditional sexuality.
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 16, 2007 Type: User Review |
Great introduction to Winterson
This is not "Well of Loneliness" (Radcliffe Hall) and for that we can all be grateful.
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Aug 08, 2006 Type: User Review |
An Unwritten Story
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit courageously tackles a topic not addressed often enough in real literature; the struggle between one's family and self as sexuality develops contrary to "normal" expectations. Jeanette Winterson deftly paints the...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 25, 2006 Type: User Review |
"History is a string full of knots"
In her debut novel, first published in 1985, Jeanette Winterson managed to achieve two important goals: one, to impress the reader with her autobiographical story, and two, to create her own style and voice, which she developed in her later...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 18, 2006 Type: User Review |
Her beginnings....
You can see the author finding her voice in this one. It's jumpy with moments of sparking fire that characterize her later works. She dips a toe into the magic realism and fairy tale, and seeing these tentative steps should give all writers faith...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 18, 2006 Type: User Review |
Winterson's first, funniest, and finest
All of Jeanette Winterson's novels are intelligent and worth reading, yet none of her later works have ever quite equalled this, her famous first novel that created a sensation in the UK in the mid 1980s. For one thing, almost none of her later...
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5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 19, 2005 Type: User Review |
Don't Bother
Let me first say that I was not offended by this book. I didn't find the premise vulgar and I have nothing against homosexuals.
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 09, 2005 Type: User Review |
In her head she was still queen, but not my queen any more.
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5.00/5 |
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