The Powerbook

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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

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• English Books
• Hardcover 225 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0224061038
• ISBN-13: 9780224061032
• Publisher: Vintage Uk
• Pub date: Jun 30, 2000
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 160 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback
• In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani

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