Portocalele nu sunt singurele fructe
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9789736892677
Publish date: 2008
Publisher: Humanitas Fiction
Pages no: 216
Edition language: Romanian
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Literary Fiction,
Religion,
Contemporary,
Glbt,
Queer,
Lesbian,
Fiction
4 Stars ☆☆☆☆This book had me hooked right from the beginning and I really struggled to put it down. There were a couple reasons though why I felt I couldn't give it the full 5 stars. The book was quite short, which I didn't think would be a problem, but this meant that the story didn't go as deep as...
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This is a book about a teenage lesbian who is razed in a fundamentalist christian household. The book was written in 1984 and it very much smacks of the most tedious parts of 1980s lesbian radicalism. Despite the fact that the main male character is a man who has been henpecked into non-existence ...
I had every intention of loving this book, but unfortunately it didn't grab me the way that Winterson's novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit or her memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? did. Winterson's writing in this novella is as vivid and evocative as always, but I wanted more charact...