The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' The Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel (Hogarth Shakespeare)

ISBN: 0804141371

Condition: New

Product DescriptionThe Winters Tale is one of Shakespeares 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 Wintersons cover version of The Winters 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.ReviewAn NPR Best Book of the Year Selection"The Gap of Time takes the plays themes of love, jealousy and estrangement and spins them into a taut contemporary tale."--New York TimesHogarth leads off the series with one of the most gifted writers working today, Jeanette Winterson, taking on the formidable Winters Tale, and the result is a shining delight of a novelWintersons gift for capturing unspoken emotion with powerful but never overwritten lyricism creates a cast of characters whose points of view are fascinating and sometimes harrowing to inhabit, fully employing the novel forms unique ability to illuminate the interiors of the actors on the pageThe opening acts of the novel are propelled by an intricately suspenseful series of scenes that capture the raw violence stemming from greed, envy and paranoia. A subtle critique of hyper masculinity, and the attendant violence fueled by money (specifically the loss thereof), ripples meaningfully beneath the novels surface. Wintersons great gift is capturing the emotional heft of her stories with sentences that hum along, beautiful, unexpected and swiftWinterson wrestles wonderfully with a perplexing text and emerges with a complicated, satisfying and contemporary tale that stands wholly on its own, despite the Bards significant shadow. But then again, show me a novelist who isnt under that shadow. For that reason, and because Winterson makes the cover business book easy, I imagine many novelists are salivating for chance to write the next book in this promising new series.--New York Times Book Review"Winterson doesnt just update the story: she fills in its psychological nuances... Its fun to see Winterson solve the plays problems, but the books real strength is the way her language shifts between earthy and poetic and her willingness to use whatever she needs to tell the story (angels, video games, carjackings). She makes us read on, our hearts in our mouths, to see how a twice-told story will turn out this time."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)"[The Gap of Time] will keep you enthralled from start to finish."--Paste Magazine"The intricacy with which Winterson has plotted her novel against each Shakespearean detail will delight readers familiar with the original its part of a vision of a world in which past, present, and future are lived simultaneously, original and adaptation existing in the same moment."--The Times (London)"A book of considerable beauty Wintersons fiction is a fine invitation into this deeply Shakespearean vision of imagination as the best kind of truth-telling."--New Statesman"Wintersons stage, like that of Shakespeare, is filled with wonders."--Times Literary Supplement"Winterson is faithful to both the narrative and the spirit of the play, while transposing it to an utterly different and modern setting There is lightness here, in the frisky prose and the authors delight in invention, but you are never free of the awareness of dark shadows where danger and corruption lie in wait."--Scotsman"Artful...it soars."--Financial Times"A deeply felt, emotionally intelligent an