by Jeanette Winterson · Minerva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780749391515
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«Boating for Beginners» is Jeanette Winterson's satirical comedy, published by Minerva in paperback (176 pages, in English).
A satire of the biblical story of the Flood: Noah, owner of a pleasure-boat company, is chosen by the «One True God» to restore faith to the world and women to the kitchen. Gloria, a young woman seeking the meaning of life, is the heroine of this story that parodies religion, romantic fiction and modern life.
Originally published in 1985, this edition is from 1990. Jeanette Winterson is also the author of «Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit» and «Sexing the Cherry».
For readers of literary satire and postmodern fiction, as well as followers of Jeanette Winterson's work.
Jeanette Winterson is an English author. Her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was a semi-autobiographical novel about a lesbian growing up in an English Pentecostal community. Other novels explore gender and sexual identity, and her later ones the relations between humans and technology. Her novels have been translated into almost 20 languages. She also broadcasts and teaches creative writing.
