{"id":598,"date":"2016-07-19T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T10:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/?p=598"},"modified":"2016-08-10T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T10:54:09","slug":"oranges-are-not-the-only-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/?p=598","title":{"rendered":"Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeanettewinterson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeanette Winterson<\/a>, is probably a matter of survival. Last summer, I read <strong><em>Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>which is her memoirs really. This is a must-read to understand both life and literature.<\/p>\n<p>These memoirs were in fact a late twin to her fist novel <em><strong>Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit<\/strong><\/em>, which I found the time to read this summer.\u00a0This first book is a genuine literary experiment, an exploration; and also\u00a0a quest into common sense and the absurdity of religious excess. Jeanette is an adopted girl brought up\u00a0by an invasive mother and her church. We follow her and re-build the puzzle of her childhood until she is compelled to leave.<\/p>\n<p>What I\u00a0found remarkable and truly impressive about this novel <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-603 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oranges-156x240.jpg\" alt=\"Oranges-156x240\" width=\"156\" height=\"240\" \/>is Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s masterly use of tone and language. The story is written from the point of view of the girl, who is extremely respectful of the mum&rsquo;s choices and decisions\u00a0as well as clearly questioning the way they live. Jeanette is torn apart and the reader can feel it too without becoming judgemental.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit<\/strong><\/em> is a <em>tour de force<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, Jeanette Winterson&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Introduction_Oranges-Are-Not-The-Only-Fruit.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">introduction<\/a> to the book should be read and re-read by all literature students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing, for Jeanette Winterson, is probably a matter of survival. Last summer, I read Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,\u00a0which is her memoirs really. This is a must-read to understand both life and literature. These memoirs were in fact a late twin to her fist novel Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/?p=598\" class=\"more-link\">Continuer la lecture<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> de <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-im-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglotheque.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}