“Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole book is a kind of chant. It is a playful addition to the Winterson oeuvre. Yet it is not a slight work so much as, homonymically, a work of sleight- - a word for which the Shorter OED gives six definitions, ranging from trickery to wisdom, all of which apply to The.PowerBook.” GivingKindBookWholePassionVoiceSixRaisedDefinitionsPreoccupationTrickery Author:Victoria Glendinning
“There's no greater bliss in life than when the plumber eventually comes to unblock your drains. No writer can give that sort of pleasure.” GivingPleasureGreaterBlissDrainsPlumber Author:Victoria Glendinning
