![]() ![]() The novel concentrates the worst qualities of her writing." New York Times reviewer Benjamin Kunkel, describes novel as doing this too much: "metaphors have altogether slipped free of their sponsoring facts her figurative language has turned into so many solemn doodles. The novel follows the richness of allegory and metaphor that is evident in much of Winterson's other works, including Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In this context, The New York Times describes the novel focusing on two themes: storytelling and love. ![]() ![]() there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark." The novel has both a present-day narrative, and one which flashes back 100 years, exploring the views of Charles Darwin and Robert Louis Stevenson. The novel received mixed reviews, with some reviewers seeing it as a continuation of Winterson's success of as a literary writer, while others frustrated by her writing.įollowing in Virginia Woolf's metaphor of To the Lighthouse, the novel focuses on the lighthouse metaphor where "the continuous narrative of existence is a lie. ![]() and follows in Winterson's typically mythological and metaphorical writing, exploring themes of storytelling, love and history. The novel depicts the perilous unbalanced psychology of the narrating character Silver, who becomes an apprentice to a lighthouse keeper. Lighthousekeeping is a 2004 novel by Jeanette Winterson. ![]()
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