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Retelling of A Winter's Tale
Hogarth Shakespeare
Hogarth
October 2015
On Sale: October 6, 2015
288 pages ISBN: 0804141355 EAN: 9780804141352 Kindle: B00S3RILH6 Hardcover / e-Book
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The Winterβs Tale is one of Shakespeareβs βlate plays.β 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 Wintersonβs cover version of The Winterβs 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.
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