Written on the Body
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
Written on the bodyis a secret code only visible in certain lights- the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.
In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise's husband, Elgin, blocking love's course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made.
With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms.
'An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body' Sunday Telegraph
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Vintage
- : 0.176901
- : 01 February 1994
- : .54 Inches X 5.21 Inches X 8 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jeanette Winterson
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 823.9/14
- : 192