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The Passion
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Author
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Jeanette Winterson.
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Publisher
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Grove
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Format
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paperback
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ISBN
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9780802135223
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Pages/Publication Date
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172/1997
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Daedalus Item Code
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29224
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Description
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(Winner of the 1987 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Jeanette Winterson's second novel explores the malleable definitions of gender, and was inspired by her affair with her literary agent Pat Kavanagh. Set during the tumultuous years of the Napoleonic Wars, The Passion intertwines the destinies of two remarkable people: Henri, who serves as Napoleon's cook from his early triumphs to his ruin in Russia, and Villanelle, the red-haired, web-footed daughter of a Venetian boatman, whose husband has literally gambled away her heart. "Its concentrated, beautifully detailed prose recalls the diction of fairy tale; its plot incorporates their magic, their shrewd wit and brutality.... A deeply imagined and beautiful book, often arrestingly so."—NYTimes "Recalls García Márquez.... Magical touches dance like highlights over the brilliance of this fairy tale about passion, gambling, madness, and androgynous ecstasy."—Edmund White "The book has the enchanted pessimism of the best fairy tales. The Passion is a love story, a meditation on pleasure and its limits, a poetic novel written in a style that is wholly original."—Interview
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