Volume 40, Number 5 · March 4, 1993
Devil in the Flesh
By Gabriele Annan
Written on the Body
by Jeanette Winterson
Knopf, 190 pp., $20.00
Written on the Body is the fifth novel by the British writer Jeanette Winterson. She published her first in 1985 when she was twenty-six. It was autobiographical and in some ways a more cheerful replay of The Way of All Flesh, with a mother and daughter instead of a father and son at loggerheads in a sectarian family. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit won a prize and became a successful television play. And no wonder, because the story Winterson had to tell was piquant and extraordinary, and so was her manner of telling it.
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