Jeanette Winterson

LIGHTHOUSEKEEPING

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From one of Britain’s best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling.
Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. One life, Babel Dark’s, a nineteenth-century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow, and the intertwining of myth and reality, of storytelling and experience, lead her through her own particular darkness.
A story of mutability, talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts and minds. Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation, and this shows her at her lyrical best.
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148 printed pages
Publication year
2010
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  • Marisol Cosioshared an impression4 years ago
    💤Borrrriiinnng!

    Maybe I didn’t get but I found the story very bland. The author is a wonderful storyteller but a great story was not told.

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  • Marisol Cosiohas quoted4 years ago
    When we kiss, I stand on tiptoe. You are very good for my calves.
  • Marisol Cosiohas quoted4 years ago
    We were so happy that happiness went with us,

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