Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

The narrator of Written on the Body has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. As Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of clichés and categories, as a visceral phenomenon necessary for emotional completion.

"Ms. Winterson's prose [gives] love a texture, a palpable quality, weighing it with the same care that one might cradle the loved one's head or hands." —The New York Times
  • WINNER | 1993
    Lambda Literary Award
© Mark Vesey
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. View titles by Jeanette Winterson

About

Winner of the Lambda Literary Award

The narrator of Written on the Body has neither name nor gender; the beloved is a married woman. As Winterson chronicles their consuming affair, she compels us to see love stripped of clichés and categories, as a visceral phenomenon necessary for emotional completion.

"Ms. Winterson's prose [gives] love a texture, a palpable quality, weighing it with the same care that one might cradle the loved one's head or hands." —The New York Times

Awards

  • WINNER | 1993
    Lambda Literary Award

Author

© Mark Vesey
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. View titles by Jeanette Winterson

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