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The PowerBook

By Jeanette Winterson

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| Hardcover | 9780375411113

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Winterson enfolds her seventh novel within the world of computers, and transforms the signal development of our time into a wholly human medium. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided you're prepared to enter the story as yourself and riskContinue

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She's got the power

The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson Jonathan Cape £14.99, pp243 Buy it at BOL Jeanette Winterson has changed her name. She is Jeanette.Winterson and her new novel is The PowerBook. It looks like an Apple Mac manual. The first impression is of confident, ... (read full critics)

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

The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

The PowerBook Jeanette Winterson (Vintage, £6.99) Buy it at a discount at BOL I had come to imagine that there was an electrified fence keeping me away from Jeanette Winterson's post- Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit fiction; and from where I was stand ... (read full critics)

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

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andando verso la fine...perde una stellina.

La sua scrittura lineare e semplice mi permette di leggerlo agevolmente in lingua originale, e considerato l'amore dell'autrice per le ambiguità, l'inglese è meglio dell'italiano, a mio parere.
"I know about disguise. I disguise myself from predators. I disguise myself from circumstance. The ... (continue)

La sua scrittura lineare e semplice mi permette di leggerlo agevolmente in lingua originale, e considerato l'amore dell'autrice per le ambiguità, l'inglese è meglio dell'italiano, a mio parere.
"I know about disguise. I disguise myself from predators. I disguise myself from circumstance. The camouflages I use are elaborate, but I know what they are. Even my body is in disguise today.
But what if my body is the disguise? What if skin, bone, liver, veins, are the things I use to hide myself? I have put them on and I can't take them off. Does that trap me or free me?"
E concordo con lei sul discorso carciofi. in effetti, poi, io adoro i carciofi.

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Lui in Persona/La cicogna folle said on Jun 5, 2009 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback