A complex little story that I would have read three times as slowly if I'd been reading it for a Women's Studies class. The role of computers in the narrative was perhaps a bit overplayed; this book is thoroughly modern and interesting without having to have mention of email and the Internet, and the metaphor already exists in how she is telling the tale. Winterson weaves together disparate pieces of myth, fairytale, literary references, and history into a satisfying fiction. Some of the gender ambiguity of Written on the Body is in here, and, like that book, the parts of The Powerbook that I really absorbed were the meditations on love and relationships.
Heidi J. De Vries
A complex little story that I would have read three times as slowly if I'd been reading it for a Women's Studies class. The role of computers in the narrative was perhaps a bit overplayed; this book is thoroughly modern and interesting without having to have mention of email and the Internet, and the metaphor already exists in how she is telling the tale. Winterson weaves together disparate pieces of myth, fairytale, literary references, and history into a satisfying fiction. Some of the gender ambiguity of Written on the Body is in here, and, like that book, the parts of The Powerbook that I really absorbed were the meditations on love and relationships.
