The King of Capri

Rating:
Summary: great poet, but conventional on philosophical/social issues
Review: 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.