Grove Press Why be happy when you could be normal', paperback/jeanette winterson

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-Magnificent .

A tour de force of literature and love.

---Vogue -Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is raucous.

It hums with a dark refulgence from its first pages.

Singular and electric .

Winterson's] life with her adoptive parents was often appalling, but it made her the writer she is.

---The New York Times - Winterson is] one of the most daring and inventive writers of our time--searingly honest yet effortlessly lithe as she slides between forms, exuberant and unerring, demanding emotional and intellectual expansion of herself and of us.

In Why Be Happy, , Winterson's] emotional life is laid bare .

in] a bravely frank narrative of truly coming undone.

For someone in love with disguises, Winterson's openness is all the more moving; there's nothing left to hide, and nothing left to hide behind.

---Elle Jeanette Winterson's bold and revelatory novels have earned her widespread acclaim, establishing her as a major figure in world literature.

She has written some of the most admired books of the past few decades, including her internationally best-selling first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, that is now often required reading in contemporary fiction classes.

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is a memoir about a life's work to find happiness.

It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home, sitting on the doorstep all night; about a religious zealot disguised as a mother who has two sets of false teeth and a revolver in the dresser, waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in a north England industrial town now changed beyond recognition; about the universe as a cosmic dustbin.

It is the story of how a painful past, which Winterson thought she had written over and repainted, rose to haunt her later in life, sending her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her biological mother.

It is also a book about other people's literature, one that sho.