By Jeanette Winterson
ISBN-10: 0156032899
ISBN-13: 9780156032896
Lighthousekeeping tells the story of Silver ("My mom referred to as me Silver. i used to be born half useful steel, half pirate."), an orphaned woman who's taken in by way of blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously previous keeper of a lighthouse at the Scottish coast. Pew tells Silver tales of Babel darkish, a nineteenth-century clergyman. darkish lived lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit and a personal one bathed within the mild of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's lifestyles turns into a map via her personal darkness, into her personal tale, and, eventually, into love.
One of the main unique and notable writers of her new release, Jeanette Winterson has created a latest fantasy concerning the transformative energy of storytelling.
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The scrawny woman let her arms drop to her side and shook her head. " Fainy was sore. He didn't "Come answer. here, honied tpnes, "allow the immortal bard: Lowliness is Fenian," me to said Doc Bingham in remind you of the words of your ambition's ladder Whereto the climber upward turns his face But when he once attains the topmost round He then unto the ladder turns his back "You must be hungry. " piece of pie," said the old woman. " said Fainy, coming forward. "Oh, if they're only ten cents I think I'd like one," woman quickly.
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