On the Page: Jeanette Winterson's 'The Stone Gods'

Gay Wired  Apr 15 08

Wildly popular British author of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson trains her polished style on a not-so-futuristic dystopian society in The Stone Gods. Winterson's dark vision of the Post-information age, posits a world in which a human / cyborgian relationship blossoms and society members are so nearly physically perfect, it takes the guesswork and fun out of sex. Full story...

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