Authors: Jeanette Winterson
Lighthousekeeping
(2004)
The PowerBook
(2000)
The World and Other Places
(short stories) (1998)
Gut Symmetries
(1997)
Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices
and a Bawd
(1994)
Written on the Body
(1992)
Sexing the Cherry
(1989)
The Passion
(1987)
Boating for Beginners
(1985)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
(1985)
Myths are universal and timeless stories that reflect and shape our lives – they explore our desires, our fears, our longings, and provide narratives that remind us what it means to be human.
The Myths
series brings together some of the world’s finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include: Chinua Achebe, Margaret Atwood, Karen Armstrong, AS Byatt, David Grossman, Milton Hatoum, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Victor Pelevin, Ali Smith, Donna Tartt, Su Tong, Dubravka Ugresic, Salley Vickers and Jeanette Winterson.
First published in Great Britain in 2005 by
Canongate Books Ltd, 14 High Street,
Edinburgh,
EH
1 1
TE
This digital edition published in 2009
Copyright © Jeanette Winterson, 2005
The moral right of the author has been asserted
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available
on request from the British Library
ISBN
978 1 84767 650 4
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