annewalk reviewed The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
Second Reading
5 stars
Wonderful. Winterson claims that the mind can't tell the difference between the past and future. Only now and not now. And the story goes round and round and round.
206 pages
English language
Published July 15, 2007 by Harcourt.
After rendering the planet unlivable, humankind begins to colonize a new blue planet, and heroine Billie Crusoe embarks on a personal odyssey into the future, in an adventure that explores humankind's relationship to the environment, power, and technology.
Wonderful. Winterson claims that the mind can't tell the difference between the past and future. Only now and not now. And the story goes round and round and round.
An anti-hero’s-journey. A carousel of a story. A dream.