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The PowerBook Paperback – October 9, 2001

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  • Series: Vintage International
  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (October 9, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375725059
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375725050
  • Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsGrand Tour
By Mr. K. Mahoney on November 4, 2000
Format: Hardcover
This new book navigates the seas of fiction and love. As a piece of internet prose, it easily surpasses Matt Beaumont's entertainment 'E'. Jeanette Winterson explores the opportunities offered by the net, the wardrobe door that leads to many a magical land. The heroine of this novel flits here and there, choosing exotic locations as she pleases. However, much of this book is also based in the real as much in the imaginary.
There's an ongoing plot in 'The Powerbook', a very modern love affair. It's the beauty of the prose that is really outstanding though. Winterson goes to Capri and uses the funicular railway as a metaphor in a manner that seems entirely natural, unforced, but prone to gravity. For me, there was a certain amount of nostalgia, as Winterson explores the settings of my own adolescent vacations, from the Isle of Capri near Sorrento, the romantic flirtation with Paris, the exhilarating adventure of seedy London. 'The Powerbook' lives up to its ambition of being an internet novel, since we can all attempt the Grand Tour via the Net nowadays. It's always a delight to follow in an author's footsteps, see the world through their eyes. For instance, you can find the painting of his wife Saskia as Flora on the net by Rembrandt. At first sight, this picture seems too dark to be the image that Winterson describes, but it's a delight to look at the picture again through her prose.
There's a section here where Winterson seems to return to the 'real life' of 'Oranges are not the Only Fruit', and it's very compelling to find a horror of nothing, the fear of having to invent, the burden of having to create. It does seem, though, that Winterson has been following current literary trends, borrowing and embellishing what she fancies.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThere is no love that does not pierce the hands and the feet
By Christos Polydorou on October 30, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Jeanette Winterson's The Powerbook manages to accomplish in only 289 pages what other books cannot accomplish in 1000...suggesting that all time is one. Winterson has made it perfectly clear elsewhere ("Art Objects: Essays on Ecstacy and Effrontery") that "all art belongs to a single period". Winterson interweaves myth, fact, history, drama, comedy, charm, wit, all in a mesmerizing voice that carries itself in a blend of rhythm, logic, revelation, beauty.
What is particularly fascinating about this novel is that there is no plot, but a series of themes that run through the fragmented novel. It is as though she has grabbed a whole of beauty, smashed it, and reassembled it. A few readings show that the otherwise unrelated characters do have some dependancy on each other, to continue the story where their mentioning ends, to reveal nuances that their actions would otherwise obscure. This book moves through several characters, through the eyes of women and men, and we find out what it is like to feel and act anf love like a man and as a woman. Francesca loves Paolo and we fall in love with him too (the haunting line "Paolo il bello" resonates) but through the story of Guinevere and Lancelot it is through Lancelot's eyes that we are, and the object of our affection is Guinevere.
This is a fully realised work, and if we compare Oranges and this we see vast differences...it makes me wonder what novels Jeanette Winterson will be composing for the next 30 to 40 years of her life. I, for one, will read them all upon moment of publication.
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5.0 out of 5 starsScheherazade for the 21st Century
By A Customer on May 18, 2002
Format: Paperback
If you're someone who loves the power of words, who loves lush, poetic prose and the images it can conjure, the magic it can work, then you will probably love Jeanette Winterson's beautiful novel, "The Powerbook."
"The Powerbook" explores Winterson's recurring themes of time, love and gender identificantion (or the lack of it) through the story of Ali/Alix, a woman living in cyberworld and reinventing herself at another's command. But reinventing yourself doesn't come without a price as Ali/Alix soon finds out. Will she pay it? And if she does, will it be worth the price?
For me, "The Powerbook" is Jeanette Winterson at her very best. Everything that was so wonderful in her previous novels comes together in this one. She tells stories, she writes the most lyrically divine prose, she uses linear time and circular time, she anchors herself in reality while letting herself soar on flights of fancy.
"The Powerbook" is art for the sake of art. Although some would argue that "art for the sake of art," especially in the literary realm, is nothing but conceit, Winterson herself, has stated differently and I agree with her. Art, she said, is our opportunity to get things right. To tell the truth. To find the ultimate reality. And she's right. Art doesn't deceive us, except on very rare occasions, and when those rare occasions do occur, we're angry with the artist.
I know that many people will read this book and wail, "But that's not real life!" Those who do should stop and reread the book once again. And even again and again if need be. It's life that tells us lies, either deliberately or by omission, life that deceives, life that denies us the rich world of fantasy and imagination and creative invention...Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsWinterson writing Winterson

Classic Jeanette Winterson from the turn of the millennium. Like Gut Symmetries and Art and Lies, The PowerBook is a cerebral fractured fairy tell. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Ngma
1.0 out of 5 starsWINTERSON SHOWSHER POWER BY RETALIATING A HUNGRY RABBIT

If you care about how someone mistreats animals and wrongly portrays strong women, Please, BOYCOTT THIS AUTHOR. PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION. What a vindictive bitch this person is. Read more

Published 20 months ago by Angels Whisper
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Once again Ms Winterson paints then peels away the lived aspirations of monotony to dazzle us with ourSelves. Oxygen in a carcinogenic atmosphere. Read more

Published 20 months ago by djinn
4.0 out of 5 starsQuick & satisfying Romance Read...

Enjoyed the history of doomed romance spattered in the pages (sort of a foreshadowing, setting the stage). Read more

Published on January 16, 2014 by Jay-Jay
5.0 out of 5 starsSeriously, it will change your life

I read the Power Book at a time in my life where I needed something but wasn't aware of what I needed. This book turned out to be it. Read more

Published on December 25, 2013 by jaz
4.0 out of 5 stars.

Contrived or not, Winterson's writing is poetic and fun to read.

My favorite line: Meatspace still has some advantages for a carbon-based girl.

Published on July 16, 2010 by Christy Leigh Stewart
4.0 out of 5 starsBeautiful and creative

I picked up this book during a vacation to Key West a couple years ago. I'd found my way into an old book store in town, stuffed to the rafters with new and used books. Read more

Published on December 14, 2009 by Linda C. Wright
5.0 out of 5 starsA Looking Glass Darkly

Winterson's Powerbook is a fanciful tale (or two or three) of "desire and boundaries" that explores the world of tomorrow, the world of yesterday, and the uncharted, unknown... Read more

Published on May 30, 2009 by Mr. Mondegreen
3.0 out of 5 starsJust a little too disjointed

I'm all for intelligent narrative. I'm all for making the reader exert an effort to understand, to excavate meaning. Read more

Published on May 21, 2008 by Alessia Brio
5.0 out of 5 starsImpressive. Surprised no other reviews

I am surprised that there have been no (none!) reviews of this beautifully written fascinating book. Read more

Published on April 22, 2008 by Norman Kurland

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