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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal
Author: Jeanette Winterson
This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother.
ISBN-13: 9780099556091
ISBN-10: 009955609X
Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 230
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Publisher: Grove Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
Members Wishing: 7
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Another home run by Winterson. If you haven't read her debut, "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit," yet, read that one first, as this is a companion piece. A brilliant look back on an unhappy childhood and how it helped shape the author, for better and for worse. Some excellent musings, too, on the comforts of literature, and why these are not--and should not be--strictly for the rich or those in the ivory tower.
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guestreviewer avatar reviewed Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? on + 39 more book reviews
Great companion book to Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. This book takes on what "really" happened during the same period of her life as the adopted daughter of a fundamentalist Christian. For those who love her books, this is absolutely necessary reading, and for those who've never read her, pick this one up and fall in love. Highly recommended.


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