The gap of time : the Winter's tale retold / Jeanette Winterson.
Material type:
TextSeries: Hogarth ShakespearePublisher: New York : Hogarth Shakespeare, [2015]Edition: First United States editionDescription: 273 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780804141352
- 0804141355
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Main Library | Fiction | Winterso Jeanette | Available | 33111008090363 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" moves from London after the 2008 financial crisis to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia, in a story of the destructive effect of jealousy and the redemptive power of love.