Lighthousekeeping
by Jeanette Winterson | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0156032899 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0156032899 Global Overview for this book
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I liked Sexing the Cherry so much (thanks to a bookring!) that I decided to seek out some other Winterson books. I'm already in love with this one, and I've only read about 30 pages. :) I think this will be a good one to share here at BookCrossing.
Trade Paperback, 232 pages
From the back cover:
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by the blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of the lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lives two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darknesss, into her own story, and finally, into love.
Jeanette Winterson is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and a children's picture book. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
Trade Paperback, 232 pages
From the back cover:
Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by the blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of the lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lives two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darknesss, into her own story, and finally, into love.
Jeanette Winterson is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and a children's picture book. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewelyn Rhys Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
