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Original Title:	Lighthousekeeping
ISBN:	0156032899 (ISBN13: 9780156032896)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Lesbian Fiction (2005), Premi Llibreter de narrativa Nominee (2005)

Lighthousekeeping

Jeanette Winterson

Paperback | Pages: 232 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 7549 Users | 693 Reviews

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Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious metal, part pirate."), an orphaned girl who is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of a lighthouse on the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver stories of Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own darkness, into her own story, and, finally, into love.

One of the most original and extraordinary writers of her generation, Jeanette Winterson has created a modern fable about the transformative power of storytelling.

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Title	:	Lighthousekeeping
Author	:	Jeanette Winterson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 232 pages
Published	:	April 3rd 2006 by Mariner Books (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Contemporary. GLBT. Queer. Literary Fiction. Literature. LGBT. Magical Realism

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Ratings: 3.85 From 7549 Users | 693 Reviews

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If you've never read any Winterson before, this might be a good place to start, even though it's one of her most recent books. It's a fairly short novel, and the text is rather spare, but Winterson is skilled at creating memorable passages with just a few words. The novel encompasses several stories, opening with the tale of orphaned Silver, who is sent off to live with an old blind man named Pew in a lighthouse on the coast of northwest Scotland. Pew tells Silver different tales while he

What a lovely & beautiful book. I think Pew has entered my list of favorite book characters. Highly recommended.

Without a doubt, Jeanette Winterson is one of the finest writers of contemporary literary fiction. Lighthousekeeping is a story about a young orphan girl taken in by a blind and mysterious lighthouse keeper who tells stories about a 19th century clergyman who leads a double life: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. As I write in my own novel, The Reality of Being Lovers, Lighthousekeeping is a love story, but you dont know that

"If you tell yourself like a story, it doesnt seem so bad."Of course I fell in love with this book immediately. Yes -- I'll use the old cliche 'fall in love,' this book gives you permission to know better and all the same keep using the word 'love.' But then I worried that it was too lovely, too tidy in its thumping end-lines. What saves it is its scattered form. This book has to be scraps and fragments to offset its pristine, shapely sentences.Winterson is an astonishing story-teller, so much

God, I love Winterson so much. Literally every sentence she writes is quotable. This book careens out of prose and into poetry most of the time; even when it doesn't, it's still beautiful.It is not a standard narrative; as such, it has no real plot in the traditional sense. Rather, it's a series of vignettes, really, in the life of the main character, Silver. Characters appear, events happen, characters disappear, all without regard for the traditional values of a "good" novel.And I love it

4 ★Nobody writes quite like Jeanette Winterson. Even when I lose the plot literally, which I did, I enjoy reading her. Its a mix of stories, and Im not sure I got all the connections. I enjoyed the blend for the first three quarters of the book but seemed to drift off at the end. Still, shes a 4★ read. 10-year-old Silver and her single mum live in a house on a hillside so steep that they sleep in hammocks and eat food that will stick to the plate (peas roll away forever), and they tie themselves

Yesterday I finally stepped out of the enchanted circle in La Mancha where I'd spent the last three weeks, and I thought about perhaps and maybe and possibly attempting to read another book, a different book, but sadly not an enchanted book because I had no more such books, and I wasnt happy about that.So I picked this book. My initial feeling was that there couldn't be two books as diametrically opposed as Don Quixote and Lighthousekeeping. One is set in the sun-filled plains of early