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- "Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides.
- About the Author: Born in Manchester, England, Jeanette Winterson is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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"Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."--Vanity Fair
I can change the story because I am the story.
"One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the power of reading
A woman is filibustering for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary story of Shahrazad in One Thousand and One Nights to reveal new questions and answers we are still thinking about today. Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? What makes us happy?
In her guise as Aladdin--the orphan who changes his world--Jeanette Winterson asks us to reread what we think we know. To look again. Especially to look again at how fiction works in our lives, giving us the courage to change our own narratives and alter endings we wish to subvert. As a young working-class woman, with no obvious future beyond factory work or marriage, Winterson realizes through the power of books that she can read herself as fiction as well as a fact: "I can change the story because I am the story."
An alluring blend of the ancient and the contemporary, One Aladdin Two Lamps ingeniously explores stories and their vital role in our lives. Weaving together fiction, magic, and memoir, Winterson's newest is a tribute to the age-old tradition of storytelling and a radical step into the future--an invitation to look closer at our stories, and thereby ourselves, to imagine the world anew.
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Praise for Jeanette Winterson
"Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides." --Vanity Fair
"Winterson's voice, with its idiosyncratic wit and sensitivity, is one you've never heard before." --Ms.
"To read Jeanette Winterson is to love her." --O Magazine
"Jeanette Winterson's sentences become lodged in the brain for years, like song lyrics." --Slate
"Winterson writes with heartrending precision . . . Ferociously funny and unfathomably generous . . . Magnificent."--Vogue
"[Winterson is] searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us."--Elle
About the Author
Born in Manchester, England, Jeanette Winterson is the author of more than twenty books, including the New York Times bestseller Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, and The Passion. She has won many prizes including the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the E. M. Forster Award, and the Stonewall Award.Shipping details
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