- Published: 6 July 2021
- ISBN: 9780099598329
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $26.00
The Passion
- Published: 6 July 2021
- ISBN: 9780099598329
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 176
- RRP: $26.00
It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant
Guardian
As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life
Sunday Times
A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail
Times Literary Supplement
Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so
New York Times
Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her
Washington Post
An explosively imaginative writer
London Free Press
A historical novel quite different from any other...written with a living passion, an eyewitness immediacy... Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides
Vanity Fair
Recalls Garcia Marquez... Magical touches dance like highlights over the brilliance of this fairy tale about passion, gambling, madness, and androgynous ecstasy
Edmund White
The overwhelming impression of her work is one of remarkable self-confidence, and she evidently thrives on risk... As good as Poe: it dares you to laugh and stares you down
New York Review of Books
It's a fantasy, a vivid dream... inventive and brilliant
Guardian
As moving and funny as it is skilful, and reflects the author's formidable appetite for life
Sunday Times
A book of great imaginative audacity and assurance...brilliantly physical (and funny) detail
Times Literary Supplement
Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tales; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality...a deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so
New York Times
Lyrical prose penetrates to the heart of things... She knows how to speak plain truth and at the same time satisfy our longing for the fabulous. She's telling you stories. Trust her
Washington Post
An explosively imaginative writer
London Free Press
A historical novel quite different from any other...written with a living passion, an eyewitness immediacy... Winterson is a master of her material, a writer in whom great talent deeply abides
Vanity Fair
Recalls Garcia Marquez... Magical touches dance like highlights over the brilliance of this fairy tale about passion, gambling, madness, and androgynous ecstasy
Edmund White
The overwhelming impression of her work is one of remarkable self-confidence, and she evidently thrives on risk... As good as Poe: it dares you to laugh and stares you down
New York Review of Books