Название: Frankissstein
Автор: Jeanette Winterson
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература
isbn: 9780802129505
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NOVELS
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Passion
Sexing the Cherry
Written on the Body
Art & Lies
Gut Symmetries
The PowerBook
Lighthousekeeping
The Stone Gods
The Gap of Time
SHORT STORIES
The World and Other Places
Midsummer Nights (ed.)
Christmas Days
NOVELLAS
Weight (Myth)
The Daylight Gate
(Horror)
NON-FICTION
Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
COLLABORATIONS
Land (with Antony Gormley and Clare Richardson)
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Tanglewreck
The Lion, the Unicorn and Me
The King of Capri
The Battle of the Sun
COMIC BOOKS
Boating for Beginners
JEANETTE WINTERSON
FRAN KISS STEIN
A LOVE STORY
Copyright 2019 by Jeanette Winterson
Cover design by Suzanne Dean
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The lines ‘We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again’ and ‘Looking for a lover who won’t blow my cover’ are from the song ‘Take It Easy’, lyrics by Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey. The line ‘There’s a pretty little thing waiting for the king’ is from the song ‘Walking in Memphis’, lyrics by Marc Cohn.
First published in 2019 by Jonathan Cape, an imprint of Vintage UK
Printed in Canada
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition: October 2019
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We may lose and we may win though we will never be here again.
Eagles, ‘Take It Easy’
Table of Contents
By the Same Author
Begin to Read
A Note from the Author
Acknowledgments
Reality is water-soluble.
What we could see, the rocks, the shore, the trees, the boats on the lake, had lost their usual definition and blurred into the long grey of a week’s rain. Even the house, that we fancied was made of stone, wavered inside a heavy mist and through that mist, sometimes, a door or a window appeared like an image in a dream.
Every solid thing had dissolved into its watery equivalent.
Our clothes did not dry. When we came in, and we must come in, because we must go out, we brought the weather with us. Waterlogged leather. СКАЧАТЬ