Weight

Condemned to shoulder the world forever by the gods he dared defy, freedom seems unattainable to Atlas. But then he receives an unexpected visit from Heracles, the one man strong enough to share the burden . . . Jeanette Winterson's retelling of the myth of Atlas and Heracles asks difficult and eternal questions about the nature of choice and coercion. Visionary and inventive, Weight turns the familiar on its head to show us ourselves in a new light.

About the author

Jeanette Winterson was born in Manchester and read English at Oxford, during which time she wrote her first novel, the Whitbread award winning Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit. Since then she has published many other novels - including The Passion, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body, The PowerBook and The Daylight Gate - a collection of short stories, a book of essays, books for children and a memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?. She has adapted her work for TV, film and stage, was awarded an OBE in 2006 and a CBE in 2018 for services to literature. Her books are published in 32 countries.@Wintersonworld | jeanettewinterson.com

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette Winterson
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781786892492
• ISBN: 978-1-78689-249-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: The Canons; The canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; FICTION / General, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Feminist, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales