Why be happy when you could be normal?
By: Jeanette Winterson
Edition: [1st American ed.].
Publisher: Grove Press; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; [Berkeley, CA]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780802120106
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Lesbians; Biography; English Authors
Description: This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
Notes: Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011.
Table of contents: title: The wrong crib; title: My advice to anybody is : get born; title: In the beginning was the word; title: The trouble with a book...; title: At home; title: Church; title: Accrington; title: The apocalypse; title: English literature A-Z; title: This is the road; title: Art and lies; title: Intermission; title: The night sea voyage; title: This appointment takes place in the past; title: Strange meeting; title: The wound; title: Coda.