Boating for Beginners

Winterson, Jeanette

ISBN 10: 0413590208 / ISBN 13: 9780413590206

Published by Methuen, London,UK, 1985

About this Item

First UK Edition, First Printing. This true first edition, first printing (first impression) with no reprint statement to the copyright page which indicates a true first print. Published simultaneously in Hardcover and Paperback this is the latter in fine condition with a small and faint previous owner's name to the front free endpage and very slight handing evidence to the cover.SIGNED by Jeanette Winterson to the title page.

Seller Inventory # 001810

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boating for Beginners
• Publisher: Methuen, London,UK
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0413590208
• ISBN 13: 9780413590206
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Review

Noah is a relatively ordinary man. He's a hard worker (he owns the thriving little pleasure boat company, Boating for Beginners), is slightly overweight and has a heart condition. In fact, apart from a bizarre antipathy towards frozen food, particularly Black Forest Gateau, he is Mr. Bog Standard. That doesn't stop him from recognising a good thing when he sees it though. So when he accidentally creates God "out of a piece of gateau and a giant electric toaster", he realises he's onto a winner. Within weeks, he's a cult figure, writes extravagant bestsellers-"Genesis", or How I did It and "Exodus" or Your Way Lies There--and has outlawed refrigerators and Black Forest Gateau. When Noah starts to turn his bestseller into a film, God feels left out and decides to liquidate the world. Noah has less than a week to fill his stage set (the ark) with animals and prepare for a flood. There are three women who find out what he's up to--Desi, Noah's daughter-in-law; Marlene, a transsexual potter, and Gloria, the thoughtful yet slightly unbalanced girl in charge of rounding up the animals. Gloria is the heroine of Boating for Beginners and it is her story that drives the rather fragmented narrative of this surreal satire. Bursting with ideas, Boating for Beginners rewrites religion and philosophy, while taking a pop at romantic fiction. It is perhaps Jeanette Winterson's most overlooked work and although not her best--turn to Oranges are Not the Only Fruit or Sexing the Cherry for that--Boating for Beginners is witty, playful and imaginative. --Jane Honey