The PowerBook is rich with historical allegory and literary allusion. Winterson's dialogue crackles with humor, snappy dialogue, and good jokes, several of which are at her own expense. This is a world of disguise, boundary crossing, and emotional diversions that change the navigation of the plot of life. Strangely sprouting tulips are erected in place of the phallus. Husbands and wives are uncoupled.
Lovers disappear in the night to escape from themselves.
On the hard drive of The PowerBook are stored a variety of stories that the reader can download and open at will, complete stories that loop through the central narrative. The PowerBook does just that. There will be a virtual rush of Internet-themed books in the networked naughties. The official website of the author Jeanette Winterson, Her work includes The. PowerBook, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit , Boating for Beginners, The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The World and Other Places, Written on the Body, Art Objects, Art and Lies, Gut Symmetries.