I saw the strangest sight tonight.New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up light as a star and decides to take her home.London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesnt 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 theres a lot they dont know about who they are and where they come from.Jeanette Wintersons cover version of The Winters 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.
Product Details
Title:
The Gap of Time (Hogarth Shakespeare): The Winter’s Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
Publisher:
HOGARTH PR
SKU:
BK0290250
EAN:
9781781090305
Number Of Pages:
320
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
Release date:
11 November 2015
About Author
Jeanette Winterson, OBE (born 27 August 1959) is an award-winning English writer, who became famous with her first book, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, a semi-autobiographical novel about a sensitive teenage girl rebelling against conventional values. Some of her other novels have explored gender polarities and sexual identity. Winterson is also a broadcaster and a professor of creative writing. Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Mariusz Kubik, http://www.mariuszkubik.pl [Attribution, GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) or CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons.
