![]() ![]() The question was, how to do so without being polemical and didactic? Only she could have come up with such an exquisite answer. ![]() Winterson has said that she wanted to look at people's need to worship and examine what happens to young men in militaristic societies. Written in a lyrical and jolting combination of fairy tale diction and rhythm and the staccato, the book would be a risky proposition in lesser hands. Two years later, The Passion, her third novel, appeared, the fantastical tale of Henri-Napoleon's cook-and Villanelle, a Venetian gondolier's daughter who has webbed feet (previously an all-male attribute), works as a croupier, picks pockets, cross-dresses, and literally loses her heart to a beautiful woman. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson won the Whitbread Award for best first fiction for the semi-autobiographical Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, an often wry exploration of lesbian possibility bumping up against evangelical fanaticism. ![]()
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