ARGONAUT BOOKS

Using the 'voices' of Handel, Sappho and Picasso, Winterson considers questions of philosophy, art and sexuality. Her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, brought immediate recognition in the form of the Whitbread Award for First Novel. Reviews If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality, if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson...she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these thingsL...Read More