| The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' the Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel Contributor(s): Winterson, Jeanette (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804141371 ISBN-13: 9780804141376 Publisher: Hogarth Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Hogarth Shakespeare |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.50 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's "late plays." It tells the story of a king whose jealousy results in the banishment of his baby daughter and the death of his beautiful wife. His daughter is found and brought up by a shepherd on the Bohemian coast, but through a series of extraordinary events, father and daughter, and eventually mother too, are reunited. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale, we move from London, a city reeling after the 2008 financial crisis, to a storm-ravaged American city called New Bohemia. Her story is one of childhood friendship, money, status, technology and the elliptical nature of time. Written with energy and wit, this is a story of the consuming power of jealousy on the one hand, and redemption and the enduring love of a lost child on the other. |