The Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winteson - The Powerbook
- 304 pgs
- fem slash
- one of one
- five stars
Ali/x is a digital Orlando for the modern age, moving across time and through transmutations of identity, weaving her stories with "long lines of laptop DNA" and shaping herself to the reader's desire. She wants to make love as simple as a song, but even in cyberspace there is no love without pain. Ali/x offers a stranger on the other side of the screen the opportunity of freedom for one night. She falls in love with her beautiful stranger, and finds herself reinvented by her own story.
I originally read this title back in 2004 and have since then continued to read Jeanette Winterson's works. However, 'The Powerbook' still remains one of my favorites to this day. I love the lyrical quality of it and so many other things. It is a beautiful book.
Like many of Winter's other titles, this book deals a lot with relationships, feelings. What caught me was the fact that the connections in this book do not just take place in the real work but online as well.
Some of this book takes a bit of mental hopping around to get. But the further you get into the book the more things fall into place; which, seems to me to simply be another characteristic of Winterson's work.
Everything just sort of fell into place at the end and it was a fairly easy read so it was enjoyable. I would definitely suggest this book to anyone and everything. Jeanette Winterson does a lot of interesting things and she has a beautiful way of writing if you don't mind the cross between postmodernism and magical realism. ;)
- 304 pgs
- fem slash
- one of one
- five stars
Ali/x is a digital Orlando for the modern age, moving across time and through transmutations of identity, weaving her stories with "long lines of laptop DNA" and shaping herself to the reader's desire. She wants to make love as simple as a song, but even in cyberspace there is no love without pain. Ali/x offers a stranger on the other side of the screen the opportunity of freedom for one night. She falls in love with her beautiful stranger, and finds herself reinvented by her own story.
I originally read this title back in 2004 and have since then continued to read Jeanette Winterson's works. However, 'The Powerbook' still remains one of my favorites to this day. I love the lyrical quality of it and so many other things. It is a beautiful book.
Like many of Winter's other titles, this book deals a lot with relationships, feelings. What caught me was the fact that the connections in this book do not just take place in the real work but online as well.
Some of this book takes a bit of mental hopping around to get. But the further you get into the book the more things fall into place; which, seems to me to simply be another characteristic of Winterson's work.
Everything just sort of fell into place at the end and it was a fairly easy read so it was enjoyable. I would definitely suggest this book to anyone and everything. Jeanette Winterson does a lot of interesting things and she has a beautiful way of writing if you don't mind the cross between postmodernism and magical realism. ;)