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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by: Jeanette Winterson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.914
EAN: 9780802135162
ISBN: 0802135161
Label: Grove Press
Manufacturer: Grove Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: August 20, 1997
Publisher: Grove Press
Sales Rank: 12002
Studio: Grove Press

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Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.

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- Meaningful novel
I suppose one mistake that people make about this book is that it is meant to expose the evils of christianity. That may be true, but I don't think that it was the author intended. It seems to be more of a moral dilemma of humanity's inhumanity towards man. Or rather to ask the question of what happens when an unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

Jeanette, adopted and raised by a domineering christian woman, is brought up to believe that there are only the Godly and the Heathens. By the age of seven that she will become a missionary and is even rewarded by her mother for scaring other students with stories of hell and damnation.

By the age of fourteen, she is throughly misunderstood at school and micro-managed at home. She soon finds solice in a young women who she brings to the church.

However, once her mother catches on to the romance, they are called to repent. ... Read More

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- I don't get what is so great about this book
I read this book because everyone says it's a classic of lesbian literature. I don't see how it's a classic of anything. The story isn't very interesting and, except for near the end, it's hardly lesbian. Maybe it was all of the religious overtones, but I struggled through it. Some of it was hard to grasp for someone who isn't English, although I think I have better than a passing knowledge of life over there. It just didn't strike me as a very good book, but now I can say I read it.

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- Didn't really strike my fancy
Unfortunately, I think a lot of the references in the novel were lost upon me because the Ms. Winterson's use of language and locations that are unfamiliar to me as an American (the novel takes place in England). In addition, Ms. Winterson' tale of coming to grips with her sexual orientation while being brought up in a religious family seems like old hat to me. However, my guess is that that story was somewhat groundbreaking when it was first published in 1985.

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- Coming Out
A girl faces the problem of coming out to her conservative family, along with their reactions to her less-than-traditional sexuality.

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