Gap of Time, The: The Winter’s Tale Retold: Hogarth Shakespeare

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Title: Gap of Time, The: The Winter’s Tale Retold: Hogarth Shakespeare
Author: WINTERSON JEANETTE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 27/06/2016
Imprint: VINTAGE
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

\” A book of considerable beauty’ New Statesman A supremely clever, compelling and emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers’ Mail on Sunday New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up u light as a star u and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn’t know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there’s a lot they don’t know about who they are and where they come from. Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story where Time itself is a player in a game of high stakes that will either end in tragedy or forgiveness. It shows us that however far we have been separated, whatever is lost shall be found. A shining delight of a novel’ New York Times Compelling, entertaining and e