Winterson gives us an arousing and wise improvisation on art, Eros, and identity.  A train hurtles through the future with three passengers on board: a disillusioned surgeon named Handel; a woman artist named Picasso; and the lesbian poet Sappho.  Out of their interwoven stories come an impassioned, philosophical, and above all, daring novel that burns with phosphorescent prose on every page.

PRAISE FOR Art and Lies:

"Extraordinary...Winterson turns our conventional ideas of reality and sexuality on their heads...There is no doubt that a brilliant and deeply feeling artist is at work here, thinking about things that matter and creating a world that has hope and glory at its heart."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"As Winterson spins the intriguing, dramatic, and significant tales of each of her characters, she satisfies our craving for story but accomplishes so much more, articulating the meaning of time, art, passion, and hypocrisy in prose charged with the pulse and imagery of poetry."
--Booklist
© 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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Winterson gives us an arousing and wise improvisation on art, Eros, and identity.  A train hurtles through the future with three passengers on board: a disillusioned surgeon named Handel; a woman artist named Picasso; and the lesbian poet Sappho.  Out of their interwoven stories come an impassioned, philosophical, and above all, daring novel that burns with phosphorescent prose on every page.

PRAISE FOR Art and Lies:

"Extraordinary...Winterson turns our conventional ideas of reality and sexuality on their heads...There is no doubt that a brilliant and deeply feeling artist is at work here, thinking about things that matter and creating a world that has hope and glory at its heart."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"As Winterson spins the intriguing, dramatic, and significant tales of each of her characters, she satisfies our craving for story but accomplishes so much more, articulating the meaning of time, art, passion, and hypocrisy in prose charged with the pulse and imagery of poetry."
--Booklist

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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