The King of Capri

by Jeanette Winterson

Book Overview

The King of Capri is so greedy that he wishes he had two mouths with which to feed himself. Meanwhile, across the bay in the city of Naples, the washerwoman Mrs. Jewel barely manages to feed herself... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0747563470
• ISBN13: 9780747563471
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

great poet, but conventional on philosophical/social issues

Jeanette Winterson is one of my top few favorite writers--I love her passion, her romance, her poetry, her magical sense of life. In many ways she's a genius. She's a literary virtuoso.But on political and social issues, she is quite conventional, spreading the same anti-capitalistic, pro-socialism, anti-American bromides that one hears everywhere.My ideal writer would have the poetry of Jeanette Winterson, but the rational, radical philosophy of Ayn Rand.