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Triangulations
Just Out sits down with
a lesbian literary legend
by
L isa B radshaw
eanette Winterson. Her name evokes pure
passion, intense loyalty and unconditional
respect from her most avid readers.
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She’s an authority—on writing, on love,
on courage, on growing up queer in a hostile
world. Indeed, this
British writers fans have
crystallized her image as
a testament to great art
but also to multiple
truths; for them, her
words are scripture, her
novels bibles.
Winterson arrived on
the literary scene in 1985
with
Oranges Are No,
Ae J a n e tte Winterson
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Only Fruit, an account of her difficult childhood in
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Now that the mayor
has come to
the police chiefs
defense,
northern England. She has taken the basic form
and style of the novel and turned it on its ear.
Winterson isn’t just postmodern, she’s post-
postmodern. Her fiction tends to be nonlinear in
regard to time and space, fairly non-narrative
and completely nonformula.
Mixing in psychological and philosophical
analysis, she intersperses fantastical subplots in
chapters of their own. The simplicity of the lan
guage is hidden by the complexity of the subject.
W interson’s new novel, The PowerBook, is a
continuation of themes explored in her previous
works. She is obsessed with the boundaries of
love and passion, with exploration through jour
neys, both physical and mental.
She also is preoccupied with human trian
gles, particularly lesbian relationships that
involve married women. (Her partner of 11
years used to be married.)
The PoiverBook follows the relationship of
London resident Ali and her lover— a married
woman from the United States— as it evolves
through the Internet and across continents.
She offers her e-mail companion “freedom for
just one n ig h t...th e freedom to be somebody
else,” with the understanding that she might
leave the story a different person from the one
who entered.
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