Sexing the Cherry

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Synopsis

Set in the 17th century, "Sexing the Cherry" celebrates the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality. This is the story of Jordan, an orphan found floating on the River Thames, and his keeper, The Dog Woman, a huge and monstrous creature with a powerful right hook and a wide vocabulary. It is a story about love and sex; lies and truths; and, twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands.

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Published
06/09/1990

Publisher
Vintage

ISBN
9780099747208

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Without labouring the magic realism, Winterson creates the most compelling of stories. It is a fairy tale with rough, raw and often funny detail, the tale of the Dog Woman and the boy she finds as a baby in the River Thames. This discovery gives her the only opportunity she ever has to grow to love someone - and for him to love her back - regardless of her physical imperfections. And the boy, Jordan, goes on to achieve what she could never do - find social favour, even bringing the first pineapple into England to the court of Charles II. (Kirkus UK)

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Jeanette Winterson

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.