Title : Why be happy when you can be normal? - Jeanette Winterson - Book
Summary :
Life: A User's Guide
“I’ve been wrestling with my bare hands most of my life. […] I’m an ambitious writer. I’ve been trying to escape the idea that women always write about “experience”—within the bounds of what they know—unlike men, who write about the big and bold. Why should a woman be restricted to anything by anyone?”
In Why be happy when you can be normal? released in England a few months ago, the character is no longer one. It's the author, Jeanette Winterson. She writes without embellishment the "true novel" of a life: the mystical rigor of a narrow-minded adoptive mother, England in the 1960s, the demons of depression. How does one become a writer when one was destined to enter the clergy? Winterson tells us about her extraordinary journey. In a house forbidden to books, she nevertheless knew how to nourish and preserve the omnipotence of the imagination.
This exceptional text is above all the story of a quest for identity, that of Jeanette and, through her, of all the women engaged in the battle for their freedom. Mothers, lovers, friends, writers, role models, adored or hated, Winterson pays homage to them in this memoir of a young girl from the Manchester working class.
- EAN: 9782879298702
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