Bibliograph

Why be happy when you could be normal?, Jeanette Winterson

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Why be happy when you could be normal?, Jeanette Winterson

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Why be happy when you could be normal?

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

881688278

Responsibility statement

Jeanette Winterson

Summary

Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother

Table Of Contents

1. The wrong crib -- 2. My advice to anybody is: get born -- 3. In the beginning was the word -- 4. Trouble with a book -- 5. At home -- 6. Church -- 7. Accrington -- 8. Apocalypse -- 9. English literature A-Z -- 10. This is the road -- 11. Art and lies -- 11. Intermission -- 12. Night sea voyage -- 13. This appointment takes place in the past -- 14. Strange meeting -- 15. Wound -- 15. Coda

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