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      Written on the Body

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      A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn...

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      Product ID:9780099598275
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:Written on the Body
      Authors:Author: Jeanette Winterson
      Page Count:192
      Subjects:Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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      A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands.

      ''This book is a deep, sensual plunge, a worship of the body, inside and out'' The Times


      In a quiet English suburb, a love affair ignites. For our nameless narrator, Louise is the last in a long line of explosive passions, but the first to have broken their heart. With Louise''s husband, Elgin, blocking love''s course, their affair is doomed to unravel - until, that is, a terrible choice must be made.
      With its witty and masterful prose, Written on the Body takes the reader on a beguiling and defying exploration of love and its physical forms.

      ''An ambitious work, at once a love story and a philosophical meditation on the body'' Sunday Telegraph


      Imprint Name:Vintage
      Publisher Name:Vintage Publishing
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2014-09-04

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      Weight144 g
      Dimensions129 × 198 × 12 mm