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jenmcmaynes 's review for:
Sexing the Cherry
by Jeanette Winterson
I like this blurb from PW much better than what is on my edition, it gives a much better sense of the book: “Evoking modern physics and antique metaphysics, Winterson's ambitiously eccentric narrative challenges her readers to rupture the boundaries of conventional perceptions and linear experience of time. Her narrative voices, alternating between a Rabelaisian giantess and her foundling son, collapse at times into one another and the characters plunge vertiginously through time and space. On the one hand reworking fairy tales, and on the other evoking the filth, squalor and exuberant bawdiness of 17th-century England in the throes of civil war, Winterson ( The Passion ) eventually locates her characters in present-day London. Graced with striking similes and poetic cadences, the author's prose is clean and strong, and the disjunctive elements of her narrative are integrated elegantly.”
I enjoyed the imagery, language, and metafictional aspects very much. And as it was very short, I didn’t mind some of the less resolved items or very strident take on feminism.
I enjoyed the imagery, language, and metafictional aspects very much. And as it was very short, I didn’t mind some of the less resolved items or very strident take on feminism.