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Bewertet in Kanada am 15. Mai 2021
This is the first of Jeanette Winterson's books I've read. I found it challenging, only in that I identified with so many of the hard things she shared about what it's like to be an adopted person. I appreciated her candor, and truly she is incredibly funny. "There are people who could never commit murder. I am not one of those people." (page 46) These witty thoughts are sprinkled throughout and bring levity to an otherwise difficult story.
nitereader
Bewertet in Australien am 24. April 2020
Jeanette Winterson is one of my most admired authors. Reading her personal story has made me want to re-read all of her books now that I have a view into what has motivates her writing.I would recommend this book to anyone who has been through the pain of adoption. Or simply anyone interested in life and love with its inevitable twists, turns and pain. Written with such raw emotional honesty, she describes her early life and the long and painful journey of coming to terms with with her pasts, (for we have more than one, all intertwined).The journey is long, arduous, beautifully and emotionally written and she comes to reconcile these pasts with who she is, (someone she quite likes) and how these pasts have made her into the successful writer she is.I was left with hope at the end of the book. Hope that through all the pain of love, loss and other life messes, that we can learn make a kind of peace with our past selves and accept and love ourselves despite or because of our pasts.
ak
Bewertet in Deutschland am 17. August 2015
dieses buch braucht keine kritik - der titel spricht für sich und für Jeanette Winterson. einiges kommt aus den 'Orangen' natürlich bekannt vor, hier vielschichter mehr.
S. F.
Bewertet in Deutschland am 6. Juni 2014
dazu ist dies auch nicht das einzige Buch. Beide haben mir sehr gut gefallen und ich mag Jeanette Winterson sehr gerne lesen.England, Sekten, coming out? seltsam? Ganz und gar nicht, seltsames ist völlig normal.Gehst in Nachbars Haus, kommst getrost heraus ...
28horseshoe
Bewertet in Deutschland am 9. Januar 2013
The author tells us about her childhood with extremely religious adoptive parents who threw her out at 16 and about the search for her biological mother a couple of decades later.The book is really difficult to sum up. My attempt to do so anyway: hilarious yet heartbreaking, always brutally honest and sometimes absolutely shocking.To call “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal” amazing or fantastic does not really do it justice. Potentially life- changing is more accurate. It gave me plenty of food for thought and also brought back many half- forgotten childhood memories of my own. Unexpectedly, reading this book put me in a very good mood -> despite not only laughing, but also crying much more than usually while reading. In short it really cheered me up.Only disadvantage of having read my favourite book of the year already at the beginning of January: finding exciting reading material is very difficult now.
Gisela Winkler
Bewertet in Deutschland am 8. November 2013
Dieser autobiografischer Einblick in Winterson's Weg zu sich selbst ist besonders wertvoll für alle, die sich für Adoptionserfahrungen interessieren. Wintersons's Sprache ist nach wie vor ehrlich und unbequem.
Jacqueline
Bewertet in Deutschland am 18. Juli 2013
Jeanette Winterson ist eine interessante und klüge Autorin. Ich finde es hat wert, andere Bücher von ihr zu lesen, wenn mögich in originelle Sprache.
CLAIRE
Bewertet in Deutschland am 6. Dezember 2012
Witty, well written, historically accurate, and keeps you hooked until the last page.Reminds one of the "luxury" we have today; food and warmth
Suzie
Bewertet in Großbritannien am 6. Januar 2012
Jeanette Winterson's writing is bold punchy, and witty, yet elegant and sometimes even sparse. It is interspersed with gems that make you stop and think, ponder whether you agree or disagree, or merely note the passage to be able to return to it later.This is an autobiography that reveals a lonely and unhappy childhood. It feels so real that you find yourself wishing you could have given the young girl the love and affection she never knew as a child.`When my mother was angry with me, which was often, she said, `The Devil led us to the wrong crib.'' It's a wonderful opening, but sad that it refers to one of the many disparaging comments used repeatedly by Mrs Winterson against her adopted daughter.Locked out at night, or forced to take shelter in the coal shed, the young Jeanette derives comfort from `Literature A-Z' in Accrington's public library and grows into a resourceful and determined young woman. Despite leaving home at sixteen, she gains a place at Oxford, an achievement undreamt of among the industrial northern working classes of the 1960s and 70s.Acknowledged as an accomplished writer who has developed a love of the natural world and concern for what humans are doing to it, she has still suffered deep despair, which she has hopefully now overcome for good. How far her unhappy childhood contributed to her later problems is an unknown factor, but it surely must have affected her perception of life and love.I am not usually a fan of biography or autobiography but I so admire Jeanette Winterson's writing that I couldn't resist reading this one, even though I had intended it as a Christmas present for my husband's sister. I'm so glad I kept it and read it myself and would recommend it to anyone who enjoys fine writing and is interested in the way people's lives and relationships develop.
Sonya Glanzmann Neutzler
Bewertet in Deutschland am 26. November 2012
Ausserordentlich beeindruckendes Buch. Sprachlich und inhaltlich herausragend. Der Autorin gelingt es, ihre Lebensgeschichte und insbesondere ihre Adoptionserfahrungen mit viel psychologischem Tiefgang darzustellen. Das Buch ist insbesondere auch Menschen zu empfehlen, welche sich privat oder beruflich mit Adoptionserfahrungen auseinandersetzen.
SteinJ
Bewertet in Deutschland am 22. Januar 2012
Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges are not the only fruit' was one of the books that helped me when I had decided to try for happiness, while the people I loved wanted me to rather be normal instead. So the title of this book talked to me immediately. This is an autobiography that takes the reader back again to the author's youth in the North of England. She was adopted, and her adoptive mother damaged her in many ways, but this is not a bitter book. It is about how she stayed (mostly) sane despite the loneliness and rage, how she 'kept her heart awake' through reading, and how she was determined to find love. In the end she finds her birth mother, but it is not a conventionally happy ending. The wound does not heal, however there is enough love in her life now that she can allow herself to feel the pain. The book is written in 'real time', so the reader witnesses all the raw emotions in the process of finding her mother. The intensity is sometimes breathtaking. Winterson writes:'There is always a wild card. And what I had were books'. This one is certainly wild card material again.
JesusLPGC
Bewertet in Spanien am 1. Mai 2012
J. Winterson, es una de las mejores novelistas del cambio de siglo.Cuando compré el libro, lo hice con el temor de encontrarme con una decepción. No ha sido así.Lo mejor: Si has leído Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit, descubrirás que muchos de lo contado en su primera novela tiene una base muy real. De hecho, parece ser que la realidad era mucho más horrible, pero extrañamente más humana. Su lenguaje es hermoso, merece ser leído una y otra vez.Lo bueno: Como toda buena autobiografía, hay algo de apologia pro vita sua, pero al menos no descendemos a los páramos de riñas y envidias que otros autores "nos regalan".Lo peor: El hueco, de lo que muchos esperábamos podría ser la parte más jugosa de su vida, que abarca desde mediados de los 80 hasta el comienzo de siglo. Aunque es cierto que muchas de las cuestiones han sido tratadas en artículos, entrevistas y demás, realmente me gustaría saber que cree ahora qué pensaba entonces ;). Puede que realmente no esté preparada para escribir aun sobre esos años, o puede que haya decidido reservarse para un nuevo libro.
Kindle owner
Bewertet in den USA am7. November 2011
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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