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[Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with r...(展開全部) [Amazon] In her new memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Winterson returns to the source, her grim girlhood in a sooty English industrial town in the 1960s, to tell her story more forthrightly than she has before. Aiming for narrative tidiness tends to dilute this memoir's delightfully unorthodox quality. But for the most part, this bullet of a book is charged with risk, dark mirth, and hard-won self-knowledge. —Parul Sehgal 珍妮特·溫特森 Jeanette Winterson,英國當代作家。1959年8月出生,自小由篤信基督教的家庭收養,16歲時出走,此後靠在殯儀館、精神病院等地兼職完成了在牛津大學的學業。1985年,處女作《橘子不是唯一的水果》出版,獲英國惠特布萊德小說首作大獎,贏得國 際聲譽。2011年,出版自傳《我要快樂,不必正常》。2016年,溫特森入選“BBC 100位傑出女性”名單。代表作品有《寫在身體上》《給櫻桃以性別》等。