An edition of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
(2011)
Why be happy when you could be normal?
[1st American ed.].
by Jeanette Winterson
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This memoir is a tough-minded search for belonging, for love, an identity, a home, and a mother by the author of "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit"--winner of the Whitbread First Novel award and the inspiration behind the award-winning BBC television adaptation "Oranges."
Publish Date
2011
Publisher
Grove Press,
Distributed by Publishers Group West
Language
English
Pages
230
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Women authors, Childhood and youth, Biography, English Authors, Mothers and daughters, Lesbians, Lesbians, biography, Authors, biography, Family, English Novelists, Biographies, Enfance et jeunesse, Famille, Romanciers anglais, Lesbiennes, Families, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Stonewall Book Awards, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, collection:judy_grahn_award=finalist, Authors, english, English Women authors, Écrivains anglais, Écrivaines anglaises, Winterson, jeanette , 1959-, Lesbians--england--biography, Authors, english--biography, Mothers and daughters--biography, Pr6073.i558 a3 2012, 823/.914People
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20th century, 20e siècleShowing 11 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?
2013, Atlas Contact
in Dutch
- 6e dr.
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Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal?
2013-08-03, Contemporary French Fiction
in French
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Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?
2012, Mondadori
in Italian
8804615001 9788804615002
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Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal?
2012, Éd. de l'Olivier
in French
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Why be happy when you could be normal?
2012, Windsor
in English
- Large print ed.
1445884038 9781445884035
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jul 31, 2012, Vintage Canada
paperback
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012, Penguin Random House
Paperback
in English
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Why be happy when you could be normal?
2011, Grove Press, Distributed by Publishers Group West
in English
- [1st American ed.].
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Oct 25, 2011, Knopf Canada
hardcover
0307401243 9780307401243
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Book Details
Table of Contents
The wrong crib
My advice to anybody is : get born
In the beginning was the word
The trouble with a book...
At home
Church
Accrington
The apocalypse
English literature A-Z
This is the road
Art and lies
Intermission
The night sea voyage
This appointment takes place in the past
Strange meeting
The wound
Coda.
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Originally published: London : Jonathan Cape, 2011.
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Memories of the author about her difficult childhood as the adopted daughter of an English mother with strong religious convictions, and her subsequent search for her biological mother.
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