![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I vowed that I would not continue my writing career without finishing what I set out to do all those years ago. The night I returned, I dreamed the entire plot to, "Where the Deer Dwell." It was a work in process for those many years until it was published in 2012. I began my first novel twenty-five years ago, after my first grown-up adventure: a trip to San Francisco. Like any obsession, it is exceedingly difficult to quit. I've been dreaming up stories and putting pen to paper since I learned to write the alphabet. I am a lover of books - these treasures that stack up endlessly before us, each one asking to be read. I usually pass on books right away after reading, but this one I'll hold on to for a little longer and revisit the pages I've made a list of as "go-backs." The note enclosed with the book giveaway from Dorothy is very special. I want to thank the author, Dorothy Gravelle, and I believe she cares very much about sharing this book. I also appreciate the amount of research that must have gone in to the writing of the book. ![]() The characters were well developed and the world around was something I could "see." It's a wonderful idea to have the main character forced into this world that she would only be able to dream about otherwise. But I was drawn to the giveaway and I made a commitment to reading if I won. I usually don't read supernatural or fantasy or science fiction. ![]()
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In this sense, The Passion (1987) is written to deconstruct the various domineering cultural, social and moral conventions or constructed realities and norms of Western civilisation. Postmodernism, though a loosely-defined term, makes reference to a cultural, intellectual, or artistic condition which does not have a direct predominant hierarchy, and epitomizes extreme entanglement, discrepancy, uncertainty, diversity, and heterogeneity. N2 - Jeannette Winterson’s novels can always be studied from a postmodern perspective. T1 - Reading Jeanette Winterson’s The Passion as a postmodern text ![]() ![]() And also the fact that love stories don’t always end with a happy ending. ![]() What would catch the attention of the reader is the simplicity and the honesty with which this book has been written, that makes the reader so gullible to believe the events of the novel. 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