Lighthousekeeping - Rilegato

Winterson, Jeanette

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ISBN 10: 0676976859 ISBN 13: 9780676976854

Casa editrice: Knopf Canada, 2004

Riassunto

Motherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Pew teaches her to “man the light” but more importantly he tells her ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of ties that bind and of the slippages that occur throughout every life, not least those of the local inhabitants. One local, Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman who loved one woman but married another, opens like a map that Silver must follow. Caught in her own particular darknesses, she embarks on an Ulyssean sift through the stories we tell ourselves, stories of love and loss, of passion and regret, stories of unending journeys that move through places and times, and the bleak finality of the shores of betrayal.

A story of mutability, of talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way in to the rooms of our own that we secretly inhabit and the lighthouses we strive towards. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation and this shows her at her lyrical best.

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Recensione

“Lighthousekeeping is written in the seductively lyrical style that characterizes [Winterson’s] narrative technique as she takes her readers on a disconnected and erotic journey into a world comprised of myth, dream, and fantasy. . . . We drift in a dream in the dream-like narrative until we experience a transformation of consciousness, a moment of light, a kind of birth. . . . Readers who have faith in this love story will find that its lyrical power, its sheer poetic genius will enlighten and change the way they read.”
–Books in Canada

"For all the talk of love, it often seems that what Winterson is really talking about is desire — the longing, the pursuit, the potent combination of erotic encounter and absence, all of which she is very good at evoking. . . . There's an appealing, flirty energy to Winterson’s narrative voice, which gives her novels a great deal of momentum. . . . The sheer pleasure that she takes in telling stories is infectious."
—The Globe and Mail

"Merely reading Jeanette Winterson is a mistake. You need to ingest her rhythms and metaphors until the book breathes inside your consciousness. . . . Lighthousekeeping. . . is a magical tale. . . . a fast and engrossing tale of love and betrayal."
—Elle (Canada)

"Lighthousekeeping is a sheer delight. . . . It is aimed squarely at the heart, not the head. . . . The success of Lighthousekeeping...lies in its complete disregard for fact in favour of fantasy, and in the seductive richness of its language. . . . Humour and inventiveness are plentiful throughout the book. . . . With Lighthousekeeping, Winterson has produced a novel so abundantly warmhearted that it would seem simply churlish to dislike it."
—The Scotsman

"Winterson has reverted to the accessible narrative of works such as The Passion. Lighthousekeeping is all the better for it."
—Financial Times (UK)

"The power of Lighthousekeeping is in its stylistic dynamic between holding itself together with the pared-down precision of its language, each word smoothed into a finely polished pebble, and spilling out in the consciousnesses, narratives and disparate times that bleed seamlessly into each other."
—The Observer (UK)

Praise for Jeanette Winterson:
"There is always a visionary moment in a Jeanette Winterson novel when someone sets sail and a new world is invoked in tones suffused with ecstasy. . . . She takes us on mythic journeys to shifting cities of the interior."
—The Times Literary Supplement

"She is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides."
—Muriel Spark

"She is able to walk the tightrope of suspense, making the reader crave the next meticulously sensual detail."
—Edmonton Journal

"Winterson expresses the range of the human soul."
—The Vancouver Sun
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore

Jeanette Winterson lives in London and the Cotswolds.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Knopf Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0676976859
• ISBN 13: 9780676976854
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 240