An edition of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
(2011)
Why be happy when you could be normal?
Large print ed.
by Jeanette Winterson
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This book is the story of a life's work to find happiness. It is the story of how the past Jeanette thought she had written over and repainted returned to haunt her later life, and sent her on a journey into madness and out again, in search of her real mother.
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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 10 featured editions. View all 24 editions?
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Waarom gelukkig zijn als je normaal kunt zijn?
2013, Atlas Contact
in Dutch
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9025440479 9789025440473
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Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal?
2013-08-03, Contemporary French Fiction
in French
2757835955 9782757835951
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Why be happy when you could be normal?
2012, Windsor
in English
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1445884038 9781445884035
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Pourquoi être heureux quand on peut être normal?
2012, Éd. de l'Olivier
in French
2879298709 9782879298702
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Perché essere felice quando puoi essere normale?
2012, Mondadori
in Italian
8804615001 9788804615002
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Jul 31, 2012, Vintage Canada
paperback
0307401251 9780307401250
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Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
2012, Penguin Random House
Paperback
in English
009955609X 9780099556091
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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
1. Wrong crib
2. My advice to anybody is: Get born
3. In the beginning was the word
4. Trouble with a book ...
5. At home
6. Church
7. Accrington
8. Apocalpyse
9. English literature A-Z
10. This is the road
11. Art and lies
Intermission
12. Night sea voyage
13. This appointment takes place in the past
14. Strange meeting
Wound
Coda.
Edition Notes
Standard print ed. 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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