Reader’s Guide to Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

The Voyage Out Book Group’s Reader’s Guide to Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

 

 

Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson

Vintage

192 pages

9780679744474

 

 

Contemporary Female Novelists from England

 

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Pat Barker’s Life Class

Zadie Smith’s NW

 

 

Jeanette Winterson is one of the most talented, controversial, and perplexing novelists of our time. Although she has held many labels, Feminist and Experimentalist pop to my mind first, her writing has found a difficult time being pushed into a clean, marketable box. Good.

Born August 27^th, 1959, she was adopted by a Pentecostal working class family. Her childhood was spent with this vehemently devout family in a small, factory town. This rigid upbringing lead her to not only rebel, but to rebel by sneaking out back to read books. Books were not always…