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On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planetpris tine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago. Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, jeanette winterson s the stone gods is a story about earth, about love, and about stories themselves on the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planetpristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago. The stone gods by jeanette winterson 5,199 ratings, 3. Jeanette wintersons prose is charming, irreverent and humorous and is a pleasure to read. Like for my part, i think we need more emotion, not less. When one has to give a jeanette winterson novel a two star rating, its blindingly obvious that today is not a good day. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took.
Winterson cloaks her disillusionment with our political excesses in a sustained, imaginative jeu desprit. Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, jeanette winterson s the stone gods is a story about earth, about love, and about stories themselves on the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planetpristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. An interplanetary love story, a travellers tale, a hymn to the beauty of the world, this is a novel that will change forever the stories we tell about the earth, about love and about stories themselves. It combines components of a romance novel with a post apocalypse work while still. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planetpristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. The stone gods by jeanette winterson penguin random house. Isbn 9780241143957 in the stone gods, a mixture of science fiction and fantasy, jeanette winterson blends finespun humor with pathos and fictionalizes nietzchean eternal recurrence in three distinct social frames or dystopias historically disconnected from one another. The stone gods is a dazzling feat of storytelling that travels from the personal to the political and on towards the infinite. I was heading towards a gigantic break down when i wrote this book. It combines components of a romance novel with a post apocalypse work while still touching on the topics of how governments are controlled by large corporations, the damaging effects of war, the slow and steady dehumanization because of increasing technological use, and many more. Billie crusoe lives on planet orbus, in the technologically advanced central power. And jeanette winterson has now penned the stone gods. But whereas asimovs essay and all his fiction hewed to scientific logic and speculative rigor, and sought to use the tropes and.
The stone gods quotes by jeanette winterson part i. The stone gods is a 2007 novel by jeanette winterson. Recent books have their own thrill, but theres just as. Sep 29, 2007 stranger than science fiction jeanette wintersons the stone gods, a humanrobot love story set in a dystopian future, is enlivened by a sliver of autobiography, says tim adams buy the stone gods. The stone gods, jeanette wintersons new novel, makes an excellent choice for.
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