Can I read READS-TO-GO on EtoBox?

READS-TO-GO by Winterson, Jeanette is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is READS-TO-GO about?

Review —A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week —A Guardian Best Book of 2011 —A Telegraph Book of the Year (Memoir) "Raw . . . A highly unusual, scrupulously honest, and endearing memoir."— Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Shattering, brilliant . . . There is a sense at the end of this brave, funny, heartbreaking book that Winterson has somehow reconciled herself to the past. Without her adoptive mother, she wonders what she would be—Normal? Uneducated? Heterosexual?—and she doesn't much fancy the prospect. . . . She might have been happy and normal, but she wouldn't have been Jeanette Winterson. Her childhood was ghastly, as bad as Dickens's stint in the blacking factory, but it was also the crucible for her incendiary talent."— The Sunday Times (UK) "Unconventional, ambitious . . . The experience of reading Why Be Happy is unusually visceral. Winterson confronts her actions, personality quirks, even sexuality, with a kind of violence, as if forcing herself to be honest. . . . The prose is often breathtaking: witty, biblical, chatty, and vigorous all at once."— Financial Times "Compelling, in fact, perhaps even more so when compared to the fictionalized versio

Who reads READS-TO-GO?

Author

Winterson, Jeanette

Publisher

Grove Press UK

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802120106

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Science, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (5 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24