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Novelist Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester, England in 1959. She was adopted and brought up in Accrington, Lancashire, in the north of England. Her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing provides the background to her acclaimed first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, published in 1985. She graduated from St Catherine's College, Oxford, and moved to London where she worked as an assistant editor at Pandora Press.
One of the most original voices in British fiction to emerge during the 1980s, Winterson was named as one of the 20 "Best of Young British Writers" in a promotion run jointly between the literary magazine Granta and the Book Marketing Council.
She adapted Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit for BBC television in 1990 and also wrote "Great Moments in Aviation," a television screenplay directed by Beeban Kidron for BBC2 in 1994. She is editor of a series of new editions of novels by Virginia Woolf published in the UK by Vintage. She is a regular contributor of reviews and articles to many newspapers and journals and has a regular column published in The Guardian. Her radio drama includes the play Text Message, broadcast by BBC Radio in November 2001.
Winterson lives in Gloucestershire and London. Her work is published in 28 countries.
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Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as a major figure in world literature. She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally bestselling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction.
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness. It's a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the Universe as Cosmic Dustbin.
It is the story of how a painful past that Jeanette thought she'd written over and repainted rose to haunt her, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.
Witty, acute, fierce, and celebratory, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, identity, home, and a mother.
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1. 这不是一篇女同的爱情故事，甚至不关乎女同本身。 今年53岁的Jeanette Winterson写这部回忆录，与其说是疗伤，不如更像一个追问。她不像一个第一次审视自己伤口的人，诧异、愤怒、然后再在某种自我催眠的叙述中得着解脱和安慰。她acknowledge那些伤口，把命运的错误或者...
评分因为屡受网络书店的“满减”诱惑，陈列在我家书架上的书经常遭到新书的排挤、碾压甚至“撤柜”处理，但读书人都知道，这种更新换代并不是简单叠加和替换，一旦某种属于书和书之间的微妙平衡被打破，你就需要花费五倍的时间去寻找新的平衡。但是某些作家的书就好比连体婴，就算...
评分《我要快乐，不必正常》这本书，是我读过最炸裂的自传。 珍妮特·温特森，代表作《橘子不是唯一的水果》，一本同性恋题材的半自传体小说。作者写《橘子》的时候只有25岁，而在写这本《我要快乐，不必正常》时已经52岁了。 如果说在25岁时，作者还需要借助小说的虚构性，来藏起...
评分1. 这不是一篇女同的爱情故事，甚至不关乎女同本身。 今年53岁的Jeanette Winterson写这部回忆录，与其说是疗伤，不如更像一个追问。她不像一个第一次审视自己伤口的人，诧异、愤怒、然后再在某种自我催眠的叙述中得着解脱和安慰。她acknowledge那些伤口，把命运的错误或者...
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虽然我很尊敬Winterson的经历，但这书真写得不好。without structure, without penetration, lazy language.
评分写作的人总不能自免地追溯自己的来处，从族谱开始，从地方志开始，从图书馆的字母A开始，虽然残忍但前半本真的好看，Accrington也成为她的文学地标，一个弃儿可以在文学史上找到所有的对照与象征，赋予自身意义，只有被锁在门外台阶上的长久静坐才让天上久远清冷的星子份外真切，自己也是追寻归途者之一，水流过无数遍故事版本重塑过无数遍，它经受各种变形，shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy，虚构撞击现实。最后的最后，JW也终于坦诚，如果她未曾被遗弃被错领，她会有另一个版本的自己——一个被爱的工人阶级的孩子，一大家子人，没有人强迫你变成世俗模子也没有机会接受教育，也就有可能不会有伤痛残缺激发巨大的潜能与热情，故事不再特别，甚至没有故事可说。
评分虽然我很尊敬Winterson的经历，但这书真写得不好。without structure, without penetration, lazy language.
评分The wider we read, the freer we become, collapsing the space between fact and fiction, as the energy of art is not time-bound.
评分是关于失去与寻找自我的一本书 真的很动人很powerful 最后两页我不舍得看完
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