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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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ISBN 9780802120106
REGISTERED: 07/31/18
UPDATED: 03/23/26
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

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  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? available on July 22 2024 from BiggerBooks for 18.29
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? available on November 23 2016 from ECampus for 18.67
  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? available on November 12 2014 from Amazon for 25
  • ISBN bar code 9780802120106 ξ2 registered July 22 2024
  • ISBN bar code 9780802120106 ξ1 registered October 20 2019
  • ISBN bar code 9780802120106 ξ3 registered July 21 2013
  • ISBN bar code 9780802120106 ξ4 registered November 12 2014
  • Product category is Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, 9780802120106, Book, Textbook Book
  • Manufacturered by Grove Press

  • # 9780802120106N

  • Product weight is 0 lbs. 

     

     

     

     
 

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    ^ Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson (2012, Hardcover)  (revised Jun 2021)
    ^  (2014). Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Grove Press. BiggerBooks.  (revised Jul 2024)
    ^  (2013). Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? ECampus.  (revised Nov 2016)
    ^  (2012). Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Grove Press. Amazon.  (revised Nov 2014)

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In the October 28th Guardian, Jeanette has an essay which retells the opening of Why Be Happy When You Could be Normal? The retelling is as riveting as the original. In essay and book, Winterson portrays herself as a survivor. Her childhood reads like the darker parts of some Grimms fairytale, even if her telling of the story is often lightened by empathy. Here, for instance, is a description of her often abusive, book-burning, adoptive mother."She filled the phone box. She was out of scale, larger than lif..
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How to start a review of Jeanette Winterson and her writing. Not an easy task. If you have read , her autobiographical novel about her childhood and early adulthood, then you know that she is a fiery independent woman, who, incidentally, is also a lesbian. She wrote it as fiction in her twenties. Now in her fifties, she revisits that time of her life. The term brutal honesty keeps popping up, but she is not brutal. There is a profound tenderness for herself and for those in her life. What she shows us ..
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Highlighted on my kindle for the first time, a rarity, don't expect to repeat that. Laughed and cried, in just about equal measures. I would say I am not normally gripped by 'quality' writing in itself, like some people I know, where the story does not compel me but his book has it all. So impressed; by the story, the writing, the writer, the profoundness. I am calling it a perfect read and something I have learnt from.
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