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The Stone Gods
Jeanette Winterson
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9780151014910 Hardcover
0151014914
$24.00
224pages
Available
Trim Size:
6 x 9
Copyright Year:
2008
Territory:
US, O (-EU)
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Synopsis |
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This new world weighs a yatto-gram.
But everything is trial-size; tread-on-me-tiny or blurred-out-offocus huge. There are leaves that have grown as big as cities, and there are birds that nest in cockleshells. On the white sand there are long-toed claw prints deep as nightmares, and there are rock pools in hand-hollows finned by invisible fish . . .
Mankind has rendered its planet unlivable and is beginning to colonize a new blue planet. Our heroine Billie Crusoe’s flight to the future is also a return to the distant past—“Everything is imprinted forever with what once was.” What begins as a witty, satirical futurist adventure deepens into a dazzling exploration of our relationship to environment, to power and technology, and to what defines us as humans.
For over twenty years Jeanette Winterson has consistently been one of our most brilliant writers. Lyrical, visionary, by turns funny and devastating, The Stone Gods is fiction at its most provocative.
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Praise |
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"Prize-winning Brit Winterson applies her fantastical touch to a sci-fi, postapocalyptic setting...stunning, lyrical and evocative..."
Publishers Weekly,1/24/2008
"The apocalypse is coming. You'll need something to read. THE STONE GODS, Jeanette Winterson's new novel, makes an excellent choice for desert-planet reading --scary, beautiful, witty and wistful by turns, dipping into the known past as it explores potential futures...read THE STONE GODS for new discoveries in language, love and what it means to be human."
The New York Times Book Review,3/30/2008
"The Stone Gods is a vivid, cautionary tale - or, more precisely, a keen lament for our irremediably incautious species."
Ursula LeGuin,The Guardian (UK),1/15/2008
"A rangy pirate, a world-swashbuckler, a plunderer of stories, literatures and hearts, with one foot in the sea and the other planted so firmly in England that her placeless, faceless fiction glints with facets of pure Englishness, the grandeur of Shakespeare, the absolutism of Lawrence, the stillness of Woolf, the traditional cocky farce of Chaucer and Carry On films. She can shift shape, self and time, she uses repetition as if it were spell-making. Everything she does suspends readers between the mind and the body, between ‘atom and dream’. She is a kind of magician. She can do anything."
Ali Smith,1/15/2008
"This book is a tour de force that skips backward in time."
Library Journal,2/28/2008
"[I]ntricately structured, emotionally lucid…With Virginia Woolf's Orlando as her template, literary prowess to burn, and an incandescent passion for life, Winterson critiques human folly in myriad forms and laments the pillaging and poisoning of the earth in this mordantly funny,fast-paced, and elegiac speculative novel, in which books literally save a life." (Starred Review)
Booklist,2/28/2008
"The latest from the eclectically adventurous Winterson (Lighthousekeeping, 2005 etc.) is equal parts meta fiction and science fiction...Winterson employs the plot as a backdrop for an environmental manifesto, making grand pronouncements--'History is not a suicide note-- it is a record of our survival'; 'Perhaps the universe is a memory of our mistakes' -- amid allusions to Beckett, Sartre and Camus, as well as the inevitable Dafoe."
Kirkus Reviews,1/15/2008
"A playful but impassioned novel. Winterson cloaks her disillusionment with out political excesses in a sustained imaginative jeu d’esprit. Her writing is funny and beautiful."
The Times (London),9/20/2007
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Biography |
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JEANETTE WINTERSON is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and, most recently a children's picture book. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.
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General Subjects |
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Fiction- Action & Adventure
Fiction- Fantasy/General
Fiction- General
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Rights Details |
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Serial/Audio/Performance/Translation: William Morris Agency
UK: Hamish Hamilton Ltd. |
Rights Information |
Harcourt Books
An imprint ofHarcourt Trade Publishers
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Harcourt Education Company
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