Portland Public Library

Why be happy when you could be normal?, Jeanette Winterson

eng

autobiography

no index present

non fiction

Why be happy when you could be normal?

771942079

Jeanette Winterson

This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--Winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."

The wrong crib -- My advice to anybody is : get born -- In the beginning was the word -- The trouble with a book ... -- At home -- Church -- Accrington -- The apocalypse -- English literature A-Z -- This is the road -- Art and lies -- Intermission -- The night sea voyage -- This appointment takes place in the past -- Strange meeting -- The wound -- Coda