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The World and Other Places

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099274537

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £8.99

The World and Other Places

In this, her first collection of short stories, Winterson reveals all the facets of her extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, she creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099274537

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 170g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • "A greatly gifted and original writer...there is an exhilarating freshness and energy to this collection"

    Observer

  • "This first book of short stories will delight her fans with their daring. Whether in a world where sleep is illegal or on an island of diamonds where the rich wear coal jewellery, Winterson is the mistress of the short story"

    Jessica de Rothschild, Tatler

  • "The quality of her writing has remained constant: precise, fluent, perfectly judged. This collection is another refinement of that art, studded with metaphors and unexpected asides"

    Independent on Sunday

  • "The short story form was made for Jeanette Winterson...mesmerising prose poems"

    The Times

  • "Her stories transport us into the dizzyingly fertile mind of one of Britain's most prodigiously gifted authors...breathtaking"

    Scotland on Sunday

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About the Author

Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson OBE has written 10 novels, children’s books, non-fiction and screenplays, and writes regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and twenty-seven years later in her bestselling memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? The Winter’s Tale tells the story of Perdita, the abandoned child. ‘All of us have talismanic texts that we have carried around and that carry us around. I have worked with The Winter’s Tale in many disguises for many years,’ Jeanette says of the play. The result is The Gap of Time, her cover version.

Jeanette Winterson

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