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Sexing the Cherry
A Literary Fiction Novel by Jeanette Winterson
Subgenres:
- Historical Fantasy,
- Philosophical Fiction,
- Mythic Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Surreal seventeenth-century England with mythic and mundane colliding
- Philosophical journeys that spiral through time and imagination
- Stories where marvel and horror sit side by side
The marvelous and the horrific, the mythic and the mundane overlap and intermingle in this wonderfully inventive novel.
Winner of the E. M. Forster Award
In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in the Thames. The child, Jordan, is rescued by Dog Woman and grows up to travel the globe like Gulliver—though he finds that the most curious oddities come from his own mind. The spiraling tale leads the reader from discussions on the nature of time to Jordan's fascination with journeys concealed within other journeys, all with a dizzying speed that jumps from epiphany to shimmering epiphany.
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Sexing the Cherry is a mixture of The Arabian Nights touched by the philosophical form of Milan Kundera and told with the grace of Italo Calvino.
Those who care for fiction that is both idiosyncratic and beautiful will want to read anything Winterson writes.
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