The World and Other Places: Stories - Paperback

by Jeanette Winterson (Author)

With language as dazzling as her wondrous visionary landscapes, this first collection of stories by one of literature's most inventive writers transports the reader to a world where sleep is illegal, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead.

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With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.

Author Biography

Jeanette Winterson lives in the English countryside outside London.