2006 books

[peteryoung]

44) Jeanette Winterson, Weight, 2005
A mischievous (and brief) retelling of the myths of Atlas and Heracles infused with some imaginative cosmology. It somehow resolves into a curiously direct form of science fiction, one that cuts through the tropes and gets down to a core theme: the boundaries we have and our necessary liberation from them. One of those off-centre book many SF fans would like, this is the first Jeanette Winterson I've read and it won't be the last.

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[dionysian06.livejournal.com]

Winterston is fantastic!