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With language as dazzling as the wondrous visionary landscapes they evoke, these seventeen works transport the reader to worlds in which sleep is illegal, the lives of lonely department store clerks are transformed by fairies, the rich wear coal jewelry on an island of diamonds, and the living laminate their dead. Here is a universe where rooms go missing, women give birth to their lovers, and the young contemplate God's creative powers through pet tortoises.

Book details

• Full title: The World and Other Places: Stories
• Author: Jeanette Winterson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780375702365
• ISBN: 0375702369
• ID: 11406377
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 259 g
• Dimensions: 200 × 137 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: June 2000

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