Lighthousekeeping

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• Full beam ahead

  Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson 232pp, Fourth Estate, £15 One tends to approach contemporary Winterson with more than a hint of heart-sink. Her prose requires exhausting levels of reader input even as it bewitches, befuddles and features flig ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• To the lighthouse, by the self-appointed heir to Virginia Woolf

  Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson Fourth Estate £16.99, pp240 The heroines of Jeanette Winterson's fiction have been fighting gravity for decades. With fantastical powers of weightlessness, walking on water and winging their way through cybersp ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

3 Reviews

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  'Lighthousekeeping' is a joy to read, with the language washing over you like waves. As with many of Winterson's books, this is a book about stories - historical stories, legendary stories, and the self as a series of story beginnings - the point being that all are stories without ends, as they're ... (continue)

  'Lighthousekeeping' is a joy to read, with the language washing over you like waves. As with many of Winterson's books, this is a book about stories - historical stories, legendary stories, and the self as a series of story beginnings - the point being that all are stories without ends, as they're always being retold, becoming again in each retelling.

  A lovely book about Silver, DogJim, Pew, Babel Dark, and the lighthouse at Cape Wrath.

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  A novel that plunges to the heart of the most fragile and personal of human experiences and laces it all with pure poetry.

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  Sugarbear said on Jun 8, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  Closer to poetry than a classic novel.
  Both the style and the story are charming and evocative.

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  Ficie said on Jun 15, 2009 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 288 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0007181507
• ISBN-13: 9780007181506
• Publisher: HarperPerennial
• Pub date: May 03, 2005
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani, Svenska böcker

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