The Stone Gods
by Jeanette Winterson
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Author: Jeanette WintersonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-01
ISBN: 0151014914
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Book Review: "I think all my life I've been calling you, across time."
Summary: 4 Stars
"I hate science fiction." So says a man who happens upon a scrap of written material, scarce now, a relic of the past. And from the first pages of this imaginative novel one might assume The Stone Gods a love story set in the future. Indeed, it is a love story, or stories, universal, untethered by time and place. Beginning with a dying planet that sends out explorative tentacles into space in search of a habitable environment, rebel scientist Billie Crusoe is pressured by an intrusive government to settle prematurely on the Blue Planet (Earth), a place still unlivable because of the dinosaurs that must be destroyed before further colonization. In a space vehicle with Captain Handsome, the genetically "fixed" Pink and a robo-sapiens, Spike, Billie finds herself falling for the beautiful robo-sapiens, who teaches the human about the flexible boundaries of love.
Unfortunately the crew soon learns that "randomness is not a mistake in the equation- it is a part of the equation". That their mission faces dire consequences is insignificant in light of Billie's growing comprehension of the deepest yearnings of the human heart. Does love perish with death? Are we doomed to the endless repetition of our mistakes? Or is life an intervention that transcends imagination? Winterson treads the uncharted waters of time, the future and the past, the unimaginable human capacity for affection that she mines through unique characters who blunder into life-threatening situations but rise above their limitation to reinvent love in all its incarnations.
Billie Crusoe experiences a relationship with an evolving robo-sapiens; Billy, the lone seaman abandoned by Capt. Cook on Easter Island in 1774, confronts gigantic stone deities, finding solace with a castaway who dreams of an unknown country; and the unwanted child of a junk yard world wanders in search of connection. A devastated landscape (Wreck City) becomes the final time-bending stage for a recurring theme. While 1774 is more familiar, the apocalyptic landscapes that dominate the novel say far more about the direction of the world we inhabit. Although sometimes tedious in its irony-weighted rhetoric, the essence of the novel remains consistent, love among the ruins of one kind or another, the urge to connect meaningfully as imperative as the self-destruction that runs civilization aground on its own hubris: "Love is an intervention. Why do we not choose it?" Luan Gaines/2008.
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