Sexing the Cherry
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Juliet Stevenson
About this listen
Set in 17th-century London, Sexing the Cherry is about the journeys taken by the boisterous Dog-Woman and her son, Jordan: journeys across seas to find bananas and pineapples; journeys through time that weave snatches of the present with tales of Charles the First and Oliver Cromwell; journeys in search of the self.
As mothers go, the Dog-Woman takes some beating. She's a giant wrapped in a skirt that could 'serve as a sail for some wartorn ship' and strong enough to fling an elephant into the air. She's hideous, too, with smallpox scars on her face where fleas live, a flat nose and black, broken teeth. To top it all, she's a 'fantasist, a liar and a murderer'.
But her son, Jordan, is proud of her - who else has a mother who can hold a dozen oranges in her mouth at once?
Like the best of Winterson's writing, such as Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and The Passion, the audiobook is engaging, ambitious and contrary. Alongside a hearty historical realism, young girls swoon in locked towers that don't exist, islands slip sideways in time and mysterious diseases wipe out towns and cities.
Even though Sexing the Cherry is short, it is impossible to listen to it in a straight line - fairy tales and dreams run in and out of the story, and it's hard to resist chasing them.
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- Mrs.S
- 01-08-22
beautiful
loved it. lots of myth and symbolism. very good. would listen again. complex but layered.
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- darren w.
- 07-04-21
Beautifully surreal.
I have read this book twice before and this audible version was everything I hoped it would be, beautifully read and well paced. A fantastically surreal story encompassing stories and locations from history and the imagination. One of her best.
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- gianluca
- 20-05-16
this story is all messed up
I understand why the book has been written like that, to prove impossible things etc.
the problem is, listening to it, it's just sooooo confusing. very hard to understand who is talking and when and why.
I advise reading the paper / e book to avoid unnecessary frustration.
the narrator did a good job.
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- a lisa
- 26-12-23
exceptional
this was an exceptional piece of fiction, themed around love (actually, mainly sex, to be more specific), manifested as a collection of chained stories, in which the author shows herself to be a master of the metaphor, in a very distinct style. overall, very critical, and very beautiful. i highly enjoyed it.
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- Interceptor
- 18-06-24
Not sure what this is....
Well, in some respects it's about a woman with a story but it soon morphs into a weird (political?) fairytale. It's not very good but somehow captivating.
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