Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester, England. After graduating from Oxford University she published her first novel at 25, Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, to widespread acclaim and a BAFTA for her BBC TV adaption. Twenty-seven years later she revisited that material in the bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? She has written 10 novels for adults, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She believes that art is for everyone and it is her mission to prove it.
Praise for Frankissstein
Longlisted for The 2019 Booker Prize
One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Fiction Books of 2019 One of
Washington Post's 50 Notable Books of Fiction in 2019 One of Hudson
Bookseller's Best Fiction Books of 2019 Library Journal's Best of
2019 Fiction Books One of BookMarks' Best Reviewed SciFi and
Fantasy Books of 2019 "Winterson has stitched together that rarest
of beasts: a novel that is both deeply thought-provoking and
provocative yet also unabashedly entertaining (I laughed out loud
more times than I could count). "Frankissstein," like its
protagonist Ry, is a hybrid: a novel that defies conventional
expectations and exists, brilliantly and defiantly, on its own
terms." -Sarah Lotz, New York Times Book Review "This novel is
talky, smart, anarchic and quite sexy. You begin to linger on those
three s's when you speak the title aloud." -Dwight Garner, New York
Times "A brainy, batty story -- an unholy amalgamation of
scholarship and comedy. [Winterson] manages to pay homage to
Shelley's insight and passion while demonstrating her own
extraordinary creativity... his is no work of conventional literary
history. It's just a jump to the left... The dialogue is slick and
funny, often delightfully obscene, but beneath all the kookiness,
Winterson is satirizing sexual politics and exploring complicated
issues of human desire... a bag of provocative tricks and treats.
With diabolical ingenuity, [Winterson's] found a way to inject
fresh questions about humanity's future into the old veins of
Frankenstein." -Ron Charles, The Washington Post
"Spellbinding...artfully structured, unexpectedly funny, and
impressively dynamic." --Elena Sheppard, Los Angeles Review of
Books ""Frankissstein" is intellectually bracing and sexually
explicit; a historical literary romp and a futuristic thriller. It,
like its characters, rejects the binary." -Carolyn Kellogg, The Los
Angeles Times "[A] dazzlingly intelligent meditation on the
responsibilities of creation, the possibilities of artificial
intelligence and the implications of both transsexuality and
transhumanism... Winterson's great gift as a writer... is the
ability to inject pure thought with such freewheeling enthusiasm
and energy that ideas take on their own kind of joyous life.
Frankissstein abounds with invention... Deeply evocative historical
realism balanced by hilarious, almost bawdy set pieces... A work of
both pleasure and profundity, robustly and skillfully
structured."--Guardian "Gleefully Gothic... Dazzling... Enjoyably
audacious."--Independent "Sparky, funny and finely calibrated to
ask weighty questions with the lightest of touches, Frankissstein
is romantic, unsettling and beautifully written."--Sunday Express
"A riotous reimagining with an energy and passion all of its own
that reanimates Frankenstein as a cautionary tale for a
contemporary moment dominated by debates about Brexit, gender,
artificial intelligence and medical experimentation... While the
story has a gripping momentum of its own, it also fizzes with
ideas."--Financial Times "A surge of inventiveness... Frankissstein
is a book that seeks to shift our perspective on humanity and the
purpose of being human in the most darkly entertaining way...
gloriously well observed."--Observer "A hold-on-to-your hat
modern-day horror story about very modern-day neuroses and
issues."--BBC News "Intelligent and inventive... Frankissstein is
very funny. There has always been a fine line between horror and
high camp, and this is a boundary that Winterson gleefully
exploits."--The Times "Highly inventive... Lyrical, gloriously
raunchy, pulpy and absurd."--New Scientist "Winterson has long been
interested in the politics of identity and is good here on the way
our aspirations and anxieties about AI tap into ancient and eternal
human dreams of perfectibility... One half of the book is saturated
in the restless melancholy of the Victorian Gothic, the other in
the ruthless sterility of Silicon Valley."--Daily Telegraph "This
fast-paced novel of ideas is animated with ease and vigor... We're
reminded that human relationships and all the emotions they entail
are precisely the things that can't be replicated. This is, after
all, a love story."--i "Hilarious but serious time-travel gambol
with Frankenstein: modern doubles into AI, cryogenics, and sexbots.
(Hint: Mod. Byron does not come out of it well.)"--Margaret Atwood
"Winterson might be the most expansive, the most ambitious, the
most wide-ranging of all out lesbian writers." --Benjamin Moser
Praise for Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
"Arresting and suspenseful... Offers literary surprises and flashes
of magnificent generosity and humor."--Washington Post Book World
"Winterson writes with heartrending precision... Ferociously funny
and unfathomably generous, Winterson's exorcism-in-writing is an
unforgettable quest for belonging... A magnificent
tour-de-force."--Vogue "One of the most entertaining and moving
memoirs in recent memory... A marvelous gift of consolation and
wisdom."--Boston Globe "[Winterson is] searingly honest yet
effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and
unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself
and of us."--Elle
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