Written on the Body

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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman At once a love story and a philosophical meditation New York Times Book Review. New Download [ Written on the Body ] author [ Jeanette Winterson ] – kino-fada.fr You know how it is when your friends fall madly in love with someone a new girlfriend , or something Guitar Hero, Battlestar Galactica , and wear you out during the honeymoon phase babbling on about his her its awesomeness, sometimes in excruciating detail If you re not in a similar situation, or worse, wish you were, it s damn near unendurable For God s sake, don t read this book unless you can stand to read about sheer, uninhibited passion, often in graphic detail The pointedly genderless You know how it is when your friends fall madly in love with someone a new girlfriend , or something Guitar Hero, Battlestar Galactica , and wear you out during the honeymoon phase babbling on about his her its awesomeness, sometimes in excruciating detail If you re not in a similar situation, or worse, wish you were, it s damn near unendurable For God s sake, don t read this book unless you can stand to read about sheer, uninhibited passion, often in graphic detail The pointedly genderless narrator, having wandered through the nooks and crannies of various male and female lovers, falls head over heels for Louise, and, when foolish enough to lose her, spends roughly a third of the book singing paeans to her entire body It s Winterson at her most self indulgent, bu...It is hard to review Jeanette Winterson Every single one of her short novels is a work of art, beautiful and painfully true while magically exploring the limits of reality.I read The Passion and thought I would not like it, because I don t do historical fiction It was breath taking, unbelievable, eye opening The recurring theme accompanies me ever since Somewhere between fear and sex, passion is I read Sexing the Cherry and thought I could not possibly like it , because The Passion mad It is hard to review Jeanette Winterson Every single one of her short novels is a work of art, beautiful and painfully true while magically exploring the limits of reality.I read The Passion and thought I would not like it, because I don t do historical fiction It was breath taking, unbelievable, eye opening The recurring theme accompanies me ever since Somewhere between fear and sex, ...Jeanette Winterson impressed me last year when I read her magical tale of historical fiction, The Passion Her poetic, interior style really resonated with me Her work lays deep in the physical heart while also sparkling on an ethereal plane.This book knocked me out Her sheer artistry had me in admiration A bit slack jawed, actually For example, the main character is not only nameless I ve seen that before but is an every person Winterson doesn t tell us if they are male or female Quit Jeanette Winterson impressed me last year when I read her magical tale of historical fiction, The Passion Her poetic, interior style really resonated with me Her work lays deep in the physical heart while also sparkling on an ethereal plane.This book knocked me out Her sheer artistry had me in admiration A bit slack jawed, actually For example, the main character is not only na...Listen along please When you fall in love with someone, I mean really fall, you become obsessed with the things that are written on the body The scar on her elbow from when she tripped over the curb, the chip in his tooth from when he fell from his skateboard that tiny birthmark behind her knee Each mark tells a story Knowing the story brings you closer The burn mark on her hand from when she Listen along please When you fall in love with...I was reading thru some of the reviews for this book I ll just say that it s beautifully written This book moved me I cried with about twenty pages to go My heart expanded and ached a little bit I felt for the narrator who we have to guess woman or man and for Louise I love the narrator This book is about love, relationships, loss, and is a bit hope filled at the end The opening sentence Why is the measure of love loss and the book takes you from there I finished it in a day Not a I was reading thru some of the reviews for this book I ll just say that it s beautifully written This book moved me I cried with about twenty pages to go My heart expanded and ached a little bit I felt for the narrator who we have to guess woman or man and for Louise I love the narrator This book is about love, relationships, loss, and is a bit hope filled at the end The opening sentence Why is the measure of love loss and the book takes you from there I finished it in a day Not a lot of pages and would have finished it in just 3 4 hours had it not been for it s language lending itself to my own experiences in relationships and thoughts about love One third of the way in I wanted to start over so I wouldn t be so near the end At times I had to stop readi...Her artistry makes my mouth drop open The most poetic, passionate, erotic book, it sits on my shelf with Duras The Lover and Rikki Ducornet s The Word Desire and Anne Carson s The Beauty of the Husband But it could also be shelved with Proust s Swann s Way for the sensual cling of memory and Chekhov s Lady with the Lapdog for its sadness The poetry of its prose is incomparable A meditation on sensual life and the meaning of love As Carson said, Beauty is what makes sex, sex A lover of u Her artistry makes my mouth drop open The most poetic, passionate, erotic book, it sits on my shelf with Duras The Lover and Rikki Ducornet s The Word Desire and Anne Carson s The Beauty of the Husband But it could also be shelved with Proust s Swann s Way for the sensual cling of memory and Chekhov s Lady with the Lapdog for ... Can love have texture It is palpable to me, the feeling between us, I weight it in my hands the way I weight your head in my hands It gives me a loose limbed confidence to know you ll be there I m expected.There s continuum There s freedom. Written On The Body isthan a book,than a story,than anything even remotely quantifiable Written on the Body is an accurate study on the power of consequences, a retrospection on pure and unconditionate love, written with the passion of Can love have texture It is palpable to me, the feeling between us, I weight it in my hands the way I weight your head in my hands It gives me a loose limbed confidence to know you ll be there I m expected.There s continuum There s freedom. Written On The Body isthan a book,than a story,than anything even remotely quantifiable Written on the Body is an accurate study on the power of consequences, a retrospection on pure and unconditionate love, written with the passion of a thousand broken dreams The way it deals with sickness and pain and betrayal, moving from prose to authentic poetry in the same sentence, is what gives this book its aching and mangled edges What places it within hand s reach I love the writing style and its tones It was l...I tried really hard to like Jeanette Winterson, because most of the women I respect think she is amazing But I just think she is fumbling and kind of incompetent And for me her charisma, great passion, and several devastating one liners don t compensat...Love demands expression It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid Written on the body is a captivating and beautifully written story of all the pleasure and the heartache, loving someone can cause The way Winterson writes, is actually almost magical Her words are almost like silk, but they are at the same time, so, so powerful.I have to admit, this wo Love demands expression It will not stay still, stay silent, be good, be modest, be seen and not heard, no It will break out in tongues of praise, the high note that smashes the glass and spills the liquid Written on the body is a captivating and beautifully written story of all the pleasure and the heartache, loving someone can cause The way Winterson writes, is actually almost magical Her words are almost like silk, but they are at the same time, so, so power...This was an amazing book It starts out as a story of an affair, but the second half isof a memory about or a lovestory to the lover s body It s impossible to tell whether the storyteller is a man or woman, but this is so well written sad, reflective, happy, joyful it works through every emotion I will have to buy it for myself.A few quotes that were meaningful to me I will taste you if only throu...

Written on the Body
  • English
  • 20 June 2017
  • Paperback
  • 192 pages
  • 0679744479
  • Jeanette Winterson
  • Written on the Body