The Powerbook - Brossura

Winterson, Jeanette

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ISBN 10: 0676973353 ISBN 13: 9780676973358

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2001

Riassunto

The PowerBook is twenty-first century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The story is simple: an e-mail writer called Ali will compose anything you like, on order, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price, and Ali discovers that she, too, will have to pay it. And as it travels from London to Paris, Capri and cyberspace, The PowerBook reinvents itself using fairy tales, contemporary myths and popular culture to weave a story of failed but requited love.

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“Pure and unadulterated pleasure.” —Calgary Herald

“Winterson employs a brilliant simplicity of style that keeps her readers intrigued by even fragmented narrative. She is able to walk the tightrope of suspense, making the reader crave the next meticulously sensual detail.” —The Edmonton Journal

"Winterson wields plain language and eloquent surrealism with equal deftness, each sentence as likely to land in a soft caress as a piercing blow—. Jeanette Winterson truly is one of the great originals of her generation." —New Brunswick Telegraph Journal

“In The Powerbook, she uses these different threads to produce a brief but fascinating tale of a cyberspace Scheherazade....The PowerBook has a depth that belies its small scope and carefully sculpted prose. A thoughtful reader will be amply repaid by answering the summons of Winterson's solitary storyteller.” —Eye Weekly

L'autore:

A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy’s E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d’argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as "a brilliant, glittering, piece of work" (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds.
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• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0676973353
• ISBN 13: 9780676973358
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 304