Oranges are not the only fruit /
"Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[1987]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | "Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles"--Jacket. |
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| Item Description: | The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection. |
| Physical Description: | 176 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0871131633 9780871131638 0802135161 9780802135162 |