Written On The Body

Author: Jeanette Winterson

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  • : $24.99 AUD
  • : 9780099193913
  • : Vintage Publishing
  • : Vintage
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  • : 0.139
  • : 31 July 1993
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 13mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
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  • : 12 September 2023
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  • : books

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  • : Paperback
  • : New ed
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  • : English
  • : 823.914
  • : good
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  • : 192
  • : Modern fiction
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Barcode 9780099193913
9780099193913

Description

A philosophical meditation, on the body: as the repository for our emotions and souls. It traces the topography of desire.

Promotion info

'This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out' The Times

Author description

Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.