Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

New York: Grove Press, 1987. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6x0x8. Reprint. Minor general wear. 1987 Trade Paperback. 176 pp. Author's first novel. Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God's elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age, and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.