Did I invent her?'' One wonders, as Winterson intends, and then wonders some more. ``It's as if Louise never existed,'' the narrator observes, ``like a character in a book.

Winterson manipulates gender expertly here, but her real achievement is her manipulation of genre : the capacious first-person narration, now addressed to the reader, now to the lover, enfolds aphorisms, meditations on extracts from an anatomy textbook, and essayistic riffs on science, virtual reality and the art of fiction (``I don't want to reproduce, I want to create something entirely new''). Rather, she teases readers out of their expectations about women and men and romance: Louise calls the narrator ``the most beautiful creature male or female that I have ever seen,'' and the narrator observes, ``I thought difference was rated to be the largest part of sexual attraction but there are so many things about us that are the same.'' When the narrator breaks off the affair after learning that Louise has cancer-only her husband can cure her-the work turns into a eulogy for lost love. This scenario seems obvious enough, but Winterson never reveals whether the narrator is male or female. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholic cancer researcher, so the narrator leads her into a sexually combative affair. The narrator, a lifelong philanderer (``I used to think marriage was a plate-glass window just begging for a brick''), has fallen in love with Louise, a pre-Raphaelite beauty.

OL1918834W Page_number_confidence 95.41 Pages 198 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210713160143 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 390 Scandate 20210712010316 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780099193913 Tts_version 4.This fourth effort from British writer Winterson ( Sexing the Cherry ) is a high-concept erotic novelette, a Vox for the postmarital crowd. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 10:01:04 Boxid IA40172613 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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