The World and Other Places

The World and Other Places is a collection of short stories by Jeanette Winterson O.B.E in the style of postmodernism.

Winterson, like other postmodernists, plays with her words so they carry multiple layers and interpretation.

It was published in hardcover by Jonathan Cape in 1998 in the UK and by Alfred A. Knopf the following year in the US.

Winterson’s appetite for social criticism mingles confidently with her lyrical instinct to give us savagely rhythmic portraits of people lost in lives they’d much rather not have to inhabit.

"[1] Reviewers for Library Journal called the stories "challenging and beautifully crafted".