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Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award

by Jeanette Winterson

Love, identity, and a narrator without a label

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Love, identity, and a narrator without a label

An unnamed, ungendered narrator’s consuming affair with a married woman gives this novel its central tension. The beloved is described as complex and conflicted, while the narration’s lack of gender leaves identity open as part of the book’s design. The supplied description also frames the novel as a philosophical meditation alongside its love story, placing questions of desire and selfhood beside the relationship at its heart.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in literary fiction centered on love and desire
  • Readers seeking a relationship story with an unnamed, ungendered narrator
  • Readers drawn to fiction that pairs romance with philosophical reflection

Themes

Love and desireIdentity and genderMarriage and relationshipsPhilosophical reflection

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Book overview

The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman.

"At once a love story and a philosophical meditation." --New York Times Book Review.
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