The Stone Gods - Softcover

Winterson, Jeanette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156035723 ISBN 13: 9780156035729

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2009

Synopsis

Playful, passionate, provocative, and frequently very funny, Jeanette Winterson's The Stone Gods is a story about Earth, about love, and about stories themselves.

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet--pristine and plentiful, as our own was 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. Off the air, Billie Crusoe and the renegade Robo sapien Spike are falling in love. Along with Captain Handsome and Pink, they're assigned to colonize the new blue planet. But when a technical maneuver intended to make it habitable backfires, Billie and Spike's flight to the future becomes a surprising return to the distant past, and they discover that "everything is imprinted forever with what once was."

About this title

Review:

PRAISE FOR JEANETTE WINTERSON

"One of our most brilliant, visionary storytellers."--San Francisco Chronicle

"If words were diamonds and sentences necklaces, Jeanette Winterson would be the De Beers of literature."--Entertainment Weekly

About the Author:

JEANETTE WINTERSON is the author of eight novels, a short-story collection, a book of essays, and, most recently a children's picture book. She has won numerous awards, including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and the E. M. Forster Award. She lives in Oxfordshire and London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0156035723
• ISBN 13: 9780156035729
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224