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Original Title:	Art & Lies
ISBN:	0679762701 (ISBN13: 9780679762706)
Edition Language:	English

Art and Lies

Jeanette Winterson

Paperback | Pages: 240 pages

Rating: 3.86 | 3815 Users | 172 Reviews

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Handel is a failed priest but abiding Catholic with elitist tendencies whose work as a doctor forces him to consider social questions that he would probably rather avoid. Picasso, as she calls herself, is a young artist who has been sexually abused by her brother but whose family thinks she is at fault for her dark moods. Sappho is, indeed, Sappho, the lesbian poet of ancient Greece, who here proclaims herself a sensualist and then proceeds to dissect "the union of language and lust." The three converge in a place that may be England in a not-too-distant future made ugly by pollution and even uglier by greed. This is not a novel but an extended rift on art, sex, religion, social repression, the dangers of patriarchy, and everything that is wrong with the contemporary drift to the right. As such, it will be hard going for most readers, but those with some patience will discover exceptionally evocative writing and a vivifying review of some much-discussed contemporary issues.

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Title	:	Art and Lies
Author	:	Jeanette Winterson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 240 pages
Published	:	February 20th 1996 by Vintage (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. GLBT. Queer. LGBT. Art. Contemporary

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Ratings: 3.86 From 3815 Users | 172 Reviews

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I don't know how to rate this...it was my first Winterson book. There were whole pages I wanted to cut out and paste on my wall. But there's also an entire musical score at the end, and lots of other strangeness. Not entirely sure what to make of it--but I will definitely read more JW.

I borrowed this book from the library branch 2 blocks from where I recently moved. What a treat to have that so close to home. Numerous times I nearly marched this book, which I found mostly befuddling, 2 blocks west to return to its place on the shelf. I had read Oranges Aren't The Only Fruit many years ago and had some recollection of Winterson's unique writing style, but Art and Lies left me in a fog most of the time I spent with it. But then! I'd come across a thought that I would wrap my

"The doctor said he could find nothing wrong. She was healthy, she had work, she came from a good family. Her heart beat was normal. Was it? Well, perhaps a little too fast.Heart attack. Had her heart attacked her? Her heart, trained at obedience classes from an early age? Her heart, well muzzled in public, taught to trot in line. Her heart, that knew the Ten Commandments, and obeyed a hundred more. Her disciplined dogged heart that would come when it was called and that never strained its

With such astonishingly lyrical writing, deep introspective musings and resounding cries for individualism this is a truly mesmerising book. I began thinking to try the first few pages and some endlessly astounding moments later I had finished and was strangely aware of how dark it suddenly had become outside! Jeanette Winterson's fantastic prose weaves exhilarating, arousing, inspiring and uplifting web that entirely entangles and lingers long after the end.

This book switches back and forth between three different narrators -- Handel, a former priest and current surgeon, Picasso, a young woman from a wealthy family, and Sappho, the poet. (Well, technically, there is a fourth narrative, a book that is being read.) Each of the voices is distinctive, but, partly because of this, the book is uneven overall. I usually love the way Winterson writes, but I found her veering off a little too much here. The Handel sections are strong, and there is an

Nearly every sentence of this book is amazing.