(Ebook) Art and Lies by Jeanette Winterson ISBN 9781448180226, 1448180228

(Ebook) Art and Lies by Jeanette Winterson ISBN 9781448180226, 1448180228

One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. "Winterson's belief in love, beauty, and most of all, language, is evangelical and redemptive... it is timely and exciting to read."  -  Rachel Cusk, The Times'There is no such thing as autobiography, there is only art and lies'. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. Stories within stories take us through the unlikely love affairs of one Doll Sneerpiece, an 18th-century bawd, and into the world of painful beauty where language has the power to heal. "If we want language to be handled with vitality and suppleness, if we want to consider serious questions of philosophy, art and sexuality if we want writers to aspire to beauty, then we should be glad of Jeanette Winterson...she is a writer who will continue to astonish, to please and to vex. Art & Lies does all these things."  -  Literary ReviewAs stories within stories unfold and journeys intersect, another world comes to the fore - one of painful beauty, where language has the power to heal. Jeanette Winterson's remarkable, radical and genre-expanding new novel Art & Lies is a question and a quest: How shall I live?