Written on the Body
by Winterson, Jeanette
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 067942007X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420071
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Synopsis
Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and spent her childhood in Accrington. She studied English at Oxford University. In 1985, she won the Whitbread First Novel Awards for Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit . Her second novel, The Passion , won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in 1987, and was followed by Sexing the Cherry , which won the 1989 EM Forster Award. Her other works include The.PowerBook, Written on the Body, Arts and Lies, Boating for Beginners, The World and Other Places , and a collection of essays, Art Objects .
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- Bookseller
- Eat My Words Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31549
- Title
- Written on the Body
- Author
- Winterson, Jeanette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First
- ISBN 10
- 067942007X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679420071
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1993
- Keywords
- 067942007X
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