The Powerbook
The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. And as it travels from London to Paris, Capri and cyberspace, The PowerBook reinvents itself using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited…
$19.95
October 23, 2001
A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’ s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
Jeanette Winterson
Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Jeanette Winterson
Frankissstein
Jeanette Winterson
The Gap of Time
Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jeanette Winterson
The Stone Gods
Jeanette Winterson
Weight
Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson
The Powerbook
Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry
Jeanette Winterson
The Passion
Jeanette Winterson
The World and Other Places
Jeanette Winterson