Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award Portraits A surge into twenty-first century

A surge into twenty-first century poetry and poetics

Seriousness where it counts

and loss--are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments

Reginald Shepherd

particularly the sexuality of mature men who

Written on the Body: Lambda Literary Award Portraits A surge into twenty-first centuryThe most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. "At once a love story and a philosophical meditation." New York Times Book Review.