The Gap of Time

Informationen zum Autor Jeanette Winterson CBE was born in Manchester. She published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , at twenty-five. Over two decades later she revisited that material in her internationally bestselling memoir Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? . Winterson has written thirteen novels for adults and two previous collections of short stories, as well as children's books, non-fiction and screenplays. She is Professor of New Writing at the University of Manchester. She lives in the Cotswolds in a wood and in Spitalfields, London. Klappentext A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. Zusammenfassung Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original and tells a story of hearts broken and hearts healed, a story of revenge and forgiveness, a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found. ‘Emotionally wrought and profoundly intelligent...

Product details

• Authors: Jeanette Winterson
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 23.06.2016
• EAN: 9780099598190
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959819-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VINTAGE BOOKS; Hogarth Shakespeare; Hogarth Shakespeare
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Shakespeare, DRAMA / Shakespeare, Classic and pre-20th century plays, Shakespeare Plays, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Classic fiction: general and literary