The Passion
Author(s): Jeanette Winterson
Henri had a passion for Napoleon and Napoleon had a passion for chicken. From Boulogne to Moscow, Henri butchered for his Emperor and never killed a single man. Meanwhile, in Venice, the city of chance and disguises, Villanelle was born with the webbed feet of her boatman father - but in the casinos she gambled her heart and lost.
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'What you risk reveals what you value...' The Passion is a fairy tale about survival and broken-heartedness, cruelty, obsession and madness.
Winner of Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1987 and Mail on Sunday / John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 1987.
Jeanette Winterson OBE is the author of ten novels, including Oranges are not the Only Fruit, The Passion and Sexing the Cherry; a book of short stories, The World and Other Places; a collection of essays, Art Objects as well as many other works, including children's books, screenplays and journalism. Her writing has won the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel, the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and the Prix d'argent at Cannes Film Festival.
General Fields
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- : Vintage
- : 0.126
- : 31 July 2001
- : 198mm X 129mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Jeanette Winterson
- : Paperback
- : 1996
- : 160
- : Modern fiction
