Donation

"The narrator, a lifelong philanderer, has fallen in love with Louise, a pre-Raphaelite beauty. Louise is unhappily married to a workaholic cancer researcher, so the narrator leads her into a sexually combative affair. This scenario seems obvious enough, but Winterson never reveals whether the narrator is male or female. When the narrator breaks off the affair after learning that Louise has cancer -- only her husband can cure her -- the work turns into a eulogy for lost love"