Atmospheric and elusive, Winterson's high-modernist excursion is an inspired meditation on myth and language. Silver, abandoned after the death of her mother in the Scottish town of Salts-a 'rock-bitten, sand-edged shell of a town'-is taken in by Pew, a yarn-spinning lighthouse keeper 'as old as a unicorn.' In the darkness of the lighthouse, he tells never-ending stories about the tortured life of a nineteenth-century clergyman, formerly a minister in Salts, and gradually, it seems, Silver contributes stories of her own. "In her sea-soaked and hypnotic eighth novel, Winterson turns the tale of an orphaned young girl and a blind old man into a fable about love and the power of storytelling. The New Yorker's review of the novel conveys this connection: ‘An entrancing, gleaming crystal of a book, which left me bereft when it was over.Lighthousekeeping, by Jeannette Winterson, 2004.īritish author Jeannette Winterson's 2004 novel Lighthousekeeping is strongly influ enced by the setting and time-spanning thematics of its predecessor, To the Lighthouse.
Jeanette Winterson is one of the most extraordinary and original writers of her generation, and this shows her at her lyrical best. One life, Babel Dark’s, a nineteenth-century clergyman, opens like a map that Silver must follow, and the intertwining of myth and reality, of storytelling and experience, lead her through her own particular darkness.Ī story of mutability, talking birds and stolen books, of Darwin and Stevenson and of the Jekyll and Hyde in all of us, Lighthousekeeping is a way into the most secret recesses of our own hearts and minds. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse, located at the isolated northwestern tip of Scotland. Motherless and anchorless, red-headed Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. When thoughtful, quiet Silvers mother dies, the girl must rely on the kindness of strangers, no easy thing to. Pew tells Silver ancient tales of longing and rootlessness, of the slippages that occur throughout every life. Buy a used copy of Lighthousekeeping book by Jeanette Winterson. Pew, keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. Motherless and anchorless, Silver is taken in by the timeless Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. A magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr.
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