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Original Title:	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United Kingdom
Literary Awards:	Whitbread Award for First Novel (1985)

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Paperback | Pages: 176 pages

Rating: 3.74 | 53094 Users | 2750 Reviews

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Title	:	Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Author	:	Jeanette Winterson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 176 pages
Published	:	August 20th 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1985)
Categories	:	Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Contemporary. Classics. Feminism. Religion

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Alternate cover edition for 9780802135162 This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Innovative, punchy and tender, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a few days ride into the bizarre outposts of religious excess and human obsession.

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A quirky and warm-hearted tale of a girl, Jeanette, growing up in an evangelical household in England with a goal for her to become a missionary. She is well-behaved, a true believer comfortable with this goal. She feels love from her mother, with a lively relationship often lifted with humor and a sense of virtue from righteous community-minded spirit. Anyone who strays from the path of virtue can find forgiveness for succumbing to temptations of the Devil. Her mother works as an administrative

THIS IS A NUMBERS GAMEAccording to my Goodreads shelf, I have read 490 novels. If Joyce Carol Oates, Marcel Proust and William Gass have anything to do with it, Ill never make 500. But I want to see that magic number 500 there! I want to be able to say I have read 500 novels, hear me roar! So, Im eating up SHORT novels like a madman right now, never mind the quality, feel the pages! 300? Too long! 250? Still too long!Oranges is short and sweet; really, short and bittersweet. It was drop dead

I was born about 20 miles from where Jeanette Winterson grew up, although my childhood happened a decade later than hers. Thankfully, I did not have to contend with the pointy end of religion coming at me from all sides; though we did have to sing hymns twice a week in morning assembly (epic dirges that lasted for WEEKS!), and were taught religious education until the age of 14 (99% of which no longer troubles my memory, I am proud to say). Oh, and being in the Cub Scouts (not my choice!), I

This was an interesting book to read immediately upon finishing Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape - here is another book about a different (but socially accepted) religion and the difficulties the narrator had within the confines of such.I have not read Winterson before. I know, I know, that's crazy-talk, I call myself a feminist and I read women authors and I've never read Jeanette Winterson. Why did I think this book was about incest? This book is not

"Oranges is an experimental novel," says Jeanette Winterson in her thoroughly obnoxious introduction: "its interests are anti-linear...You can read in spirals." It's nothing of the sort. It's a standard semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story, interspersed with some sort of Arthurian malarkey.Coming out stories from the 80s and 90s aren't aging terribly well; they're too specifically grounded in that period. David Sedaris is a little wincey in hindsight, too. But this one from 1985 is fine as

An unassuming coming-of-age tale about love, religion, and repression, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit conducts a moving psychological study of a young British lesbian. Across the novels eight chapters, Winterson follows a fictionalized version of herself, Jeanette, as she grows up in a strict, working-class Protestant household; in plain but incisive prose, the author considers the teen girls struggle to reconcile her sexuality with her faith, charts the highs and lows of her first romances with

Oranges are not the only fruit, a book ruined by its author. And well, itself. When I began reading it for the first time, I enjoyed it; Jeanette was a witty character, though a tad hard to relate to, and her life as a girl trying to break free of a small town is a story many of us can understand.What hurt the book for me was its pretence, emphasised in Wintersons ludicrously self gratifying introduction. It is difficult, for someone used to the more modest comments of authors such as Woolf (I