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Another story about storytelling. Winterson's books usually slide through my mind like fine silk leaving only an impression of strange beauty. Another orphan finds what family she can with a dog and a blind lighthousekeeper and stories found in the lighthouse. The dominant story is of a 19th century man named Babel Dark. Darwin and Jekyll and Hyde and seahorses and how love batters its way in. (August 19, 2005)
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Wow, do I ever need to get my hands on some more Jeanette Winterson books.
This novel was beautiful -- simply beautiful. Her prose is like nothing I've ever read before, as it's almost more like poetry than it is like prose at all.
It definitely helped that I have quite an obsession with lighthouses but regardless, the beauty of this story will surely captivate any reader. ...more
This novel was beautiful -- simply beautiful. Her prose is like nothing I've ever read before, as it's almost more like poetry than it is like prose at all.
It definitely helped that I have quite an obsession with lighthouses but regardless, the beauty of this story will surely captivate any reader. ...more
Intriguing. I'm not sure I got everything possible from the novel. Is it part fairy tale?
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May 27, 2015
Margaret Pinard
marked it as to-read
Nov 26, 2018
shannon
marked it as to-read
