Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language. Silver, abandoned after the death of her mother in the Scottish town of Salts-a 'rock-bitten, sand-edged shell of a town'-is taken in by Pew, a yarn-spinning lighthouse keeper 'as old as a unicorn.' In the darkness of the lighthouse, he tells never-ending stories about the tortured life of a nineteenth-century clergyman, formerly a minister in Salts, and gradually, it seems, Silver contributes stories of her own. Lighthousekeeping Jeanette Winterson 3.86 8,701 ratings848 reviews Want to read Kindle 11. "In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. The New Yorker's review of the novel conveys this connection: Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Lighthousekeeping, by Jeannette Winterson, 2004.īritish author Jeannette Winterson's 2004 novel Lighthousekeeping is strongly influ enced by the setting and time-spanning thematics of its predecessor, To the Lighthouse.
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