World and Other Places

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson's delectable first novel, announced the arrival of a fresh voice with a mind behind it, as Muriel Spark has written. She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides--and her reputation and accomplishment have grown with each of her five subsequent novels.

Now, with her first collection--seventeen stories that span her entire career--Jeanette Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. Whether transporting us to bizarre new geographies--a world where sleep is illegal, an island of diamonds where the rich wear jewelry made of coal--or revealing so perfectly, so exactly, the joy and pain of owning a brand-new dog, she proves herself a master of the short form.

For her readers, a celebration--and for everyone else, a wonderful introduction to this highly original and consistently daring writer, who has become "one of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers" (San Francisco Chronicle)