- Napoleonic wars, 1800-1815, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, general, Italy, fiction
Jeanette Winterson’s novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in world literature. The Passion is perhaps her most highly acclaimed work, a modern classic that confirms her special claim on the novel.
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Grave, prestige, meticulous and open-ended.
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Jeanette Winterson
- First published
- December 1989
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Sudamericana, LUMEN, Atlantic Monthly Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- cat, Dutch, tur, German
- ISBN
- 9789025420666
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“It was Napoleon who had such a passion for chicken that he kept his chefs working around the clock.”
Jeanette Winterson is an British author. Her first book, *Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit,* was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender polarities and sexual identity and later ones the relations between humans and technology. She has received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) and a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to literature, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages.
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