Christmas Days - Jeanette Winterson

Christmas Days

ByJeanette Winterson

  • Release Date: 2016-12-06
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 12 Ratings

Description

Holiday stories and recipes by the New York Times bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?—"otherworldly and wickedly funny" (The New York Times Book Review).

For years Jeanette Winterson has loved writing a new story at Christmas time, inspired by the mysteries and traditions of the season. Here she brings together twelve of her funny and bold tales, along with twelve delicious recipes for the Twelve Days of Christmas.

From jovial spirits to a donkey with a golden nose, a haunted house to a SnowMama, Winterson's original and imaginative stories encompass the childlike and spooky wonder of Christmas. These tales pair perfectly with Winterson's original recipes, or ones contributed by literary friends including Ruth Rendell, Kathy Acker, and others. Enjoy the season of peace and goodwill, mystery, and a little bit of magic with this "holiday treasure…to be pulled out on a December night, fireside, and read aloud" (The New York Times Book Review).

"If you crave the mystery, the family rituals, and the special victuals of Christmastime, you'll savor . . . bold, revelatory feminist writer Jeanette Winterson's Christmas Days." —Elle

Reviews

  • A Special Book

    5
    By LCinSDCA
    Special stories that I shall re-read, and cherish, year after year. The recipes are fun, too!
  • The perfect holiday gift for the soul…

    5
    By mike_10009
    I hate my own headlines. I’m a terrible at creating them, and while this one is apt, it’s also … misleading maybe? Suffice to say that every moment of reading this book was more than wonderful. I read one chapter and one recipe each day starting on 12 December and ending on Christmas Day (I know that the 12 days should start on 25 Dec. and go through Epiphany or 12th Night or whatever, but I’m American and by that point, Christmas is a memory) (sadly) and each day was, quite simply, a gift. Each day provided a new style of story delivered by Jeanette Winterson’s talent for stringing together distinctive and evocative words, phrases, sentences, stories, worlds... Each day provided delightful and enlightening “aha” moments. Each day gave me complete joy, sorrow, bliss — often from the stories, but more often just from the words and their masterful construction. To say I loved this book would be a vast understatement.

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