Lighthousekeeping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lighthousekeeping write by Jeanette Winterson. This book was released on 2006-04-03. Lighthousekeeping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An orphaned girl is held spellbound by the tales of a lighthouse keeper on the Scottish coast, in a novel by the Costa Award-winning author of The Passion. After her mother is literally swept away by the savage winds off the Atlantic coast of Salts, Scotland, never to be seen again, the orphaned Silver is feeling particularly unmoored. Taken in by the mysterious keeper of a lighthouse on Cape Wrath, Silver finds an anchor in Mr. Pew—blind, as old and legendary as a unicorn, and a yarn spinner of persuasive power. The tale he has to tell Silver is that of a nineteenth-century clergyman named Babel Dark, whose life was divided between a loving light and a mask of deceit. Peopled with such luminaries as Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson, Mr. Pew’s story within a story within a story soon unfolds like a map. It’s one that Silver must follow if she’s to be led through her own darkness, and to find her own meaning in life, in this novel by a winner of the Costa, Lambda, and E.M. Forster Awards, the author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? and other acclaimed works. “In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling…Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language.”—The New Yorker
Lighthousekeeping
Lighthousekeeping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lighthousekeeping write by Jeanette Winterson. This book was released on 2011-02-04. Lighthousekeeping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tanglewreck
Tanglewreck - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tanglewreck write by Jeanette Winterson. This book was released on 2011-07-04. Tanglewreck available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it! In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key to the mysterious and frightening changes in time. When Silver goes on the run to try and protect herself and the Timekeeper, a remarkable and compelling adventure unfolds, full of brilliance and wit, as is befitting an author with the imagination and style of Jeanette Winterson.
Light Housekeeping
Light Housekeeping - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Light Housekeeping write by Susan McCaslin. This book was released on 1997. Light Housekeeping available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At times deceptively simple, the poems in Light Housekeeping explore the tentative presence of the soul in everyday life through reflections on teaching, writing, familial bonds and raising a child.
Written on the Body
Written on the Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Written on the Body write by Jeanette Winterson. This book was released on 2013-04-17. Written on the Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. “At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
