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Lighthousekeeping

By Jeanette Winterson

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| Paperback | 9780156032896

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Book Description

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineContinue

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.

One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation, Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling.

Critics

  • 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

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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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    Gylfinir said on Jan 9, 2009 | Add your feedback

  • 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

  • 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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