Product DescriptionThe most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. ''At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.''--New York Times Book Review.
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Measuring love
Written on the Body ("WOB") was an attempt to measure love through the medium of loss. "Why is the measure of love loss?" flashes the start of the novel. It soon becomes apparent that the narrator's sense of loss of his/her girlfriend is the focus of this short novel. Winterson writes beautifully in her description of the anguish, fear, and helplessness that grips a person who has lost a love, but at the same time, the fine form and clarity of the writing appears brittle because the novel lacks depth. Let me explain. An important part that might have made this a greater novel is missing. Winterson did not, in my view, develop the love that the narrator lost, and show us what it was like at its prime. We are brought to grapple and empathize with ... Read More
bad book
This is the worst book I've read in a long time. I felt like reading soft porn, with a narrative going nowhere. And the main character seems to have too much time to spare. Doesn't he/she have a job like regular people? I couldn't get myself to finish it!!
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One to highlight as if it was a textbook full of life wisdom. The plentiful nuggets of simile have a way of taking root in the soul.
The gender ambiguity that others rave about didn't matter much to me, but I'm not hung up on such identity. It was the depth of emotion, the transformative power of love and lust, that resonated.
This is poetry wrapped in prose.
Now written on my soul...
Written on the Body left me breathless - not metaphorically, but actually literally. I found myself cold, hot, shivering, and consumed by its power and its glory. I read about love and lust in ways I could not have imagined. I felt uplifted and weighed down by their weight and their weightlessness. I fell in love, and in lust, with the words of Jeanette Winterson.
[I feel so giddy having read Written on the Body that I don't really think I can write a very sensible review; but I need to share my feelings, so I'm giving it a shot. Bear with me. Please.]
This is a tale of the unbelievable highs and unfathomable lows that the human spirit can reach; it's a tale of paradise gained and paradise lost; a tale of fickleness and fidelity; a tale ... Read More
