oranges are not the only fruit book review

When she lost her hearing her mother thought she was just full of spirit and it was another woman, Miss Jewsburry, a lesbian, that took her to hospital for surgery. When she asked her mother to teach her French she was strongly refused because a foreign language could have been her downfall. She began preaching when she was eight and the study of the Bible was her daily routine. Their house was the house of the Lord and Jeanette was raised to become a servant. There were friends and there were enemies. Janette was all her childhood under the influence of her dominant religious mother who had never had mixed feelings. Fiction becomes authors’ and readers’ catharsis in a complicated process of introspection authors recreate the self, offering options and making sense of being human. We all travel in our life remembering things, analyzing them, accepting or rejecting memories. Understood? Part fact part fiction is what life is. I suppose I have, in a way, gone on using my own name in everything I have written because I prefer to write in the First Person. In this case, Winterson experiences re-invention. As the author’s own feelings and experiences interfere with the narrative, it is almost impossible to eliminate them and create a story with no real base. …the author says in the Introduction of the book.Īs Julian Barnes once said, all novels are biographical, but in some novels people are real and in some they are not. Read what you don’t know is better advice. Write what you know is reasonable advice.

The trick is to turn your life into something that has meaning for people whose experience is nothing like your own. Oranges is autobiographical in so much as I used my own life as the base of the story. The story in the novel is based on the author’s biography actually the main character’s name is Jeanette. Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and adopted by a Pentecostal family who raised her to become a missionary. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit/ Portocalele nu sunt singurele fructe is a story about options and choices, a bildungsroman on a teenager’s becoming. I was thinking about the title of this review when I realized that the essential description of the book is its own title. Published September 4th 2014 by Vintage (first published 1985), 224p Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Oranges are not the only fruit book review