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Composed in tight, spare prose echoing web communications, wintersons seventh novel takes its cues from the internet, where reality is implied but never. The first edition of this novel was published in 2000, and was written by jeanette winterson. The love story is told through philosophical prose. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. Quotations by jeanette winterson, british novelist, born august 27, 1959. The first edition of the novel was published in 1987, and was written by jeanette winterson. The first edition of the novel was published in 2000, and was written by jeanette winterson. The book has been awarded with john llewellyn rhys prize. The powerbook challenges the approach to art and writing as winterson s books almost invariably do, but it is almost completely indifferent to the influence or possibilities of modern technology, alis cyberfiction notwithstanding. The powerbook is twentyfirst century fiction that uses past, present and future as shifting dimensions of a multiple reality. The powerbook offers more of what jeanette wintersons fans have come to expect interesting ruminations on the nature of love and sex in her elegant, economical style. Powerbook, sets the triangular affairs of the great and ruinous lovers in the contexts of contemporary and classic fairytale, in london, paris, capri and.
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