The World and Other Places is a collection of short stories by Jeanette Winterson O.B.E in the style of postmodernism. Some of the contained short stories have been previously published in well known publications, such as The New Yorker. Winterson, like other postmodernists, plays with her words so they carry multiple …
In questi dieci saggi brillanti e provocatori Jeanette Winterson, una delle più stimate e anticonformiste narratrici contemporanee, rivela il suo personale e imprevedibile talento come critica d'arte e di letteratura. Le sue riflessioni sugli argomenti più eterogenei - dalla Gioconda all'autobiografia di Gertrude …
But Time is big business, and whoever gets control of Time controls life as we know it!In a house called Tanglewreck lives a girl called Silver and her guardian Mrs Rokabye. Unbeknown to Silver there is a family treasure in the form of a seventeenth-century watch called the Timekeeper, and this treasure holds the key …