Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780099598282
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £9.99
'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'.
Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book.
Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love-affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal.
Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 04/09/2014
ISBN: 9780099598282
Length: 240 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
Weight: 170g
RRP: £9.99
If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality, if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson...she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these things
Brave and ambitious
Winterson's belief in love, beauty, and most of all, language, is evangelical and redemptive...it is timely and exciting to read