On Monday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m., Jeanette Winterson will be stopping by the bookstore for an "drop in" reading and signing.
This reading and signing will be held in-store ( 5233 N. Clark St. ) and will celebrate the publication of her latest book, The Gap of Time, a retelling of William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale.
Seating for this event is limited and first-come-first-serve, so please plan your evening accordingly.
In The Gap of Time, ( on sale: October 6th ) Jeanette Winterson's retelling of The Winter's 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.
The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's 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.
Jeanette Winterson has written ten novels, children's books, nonfiction works, and screenplays, and she writes regularly for the Guardian. She was adopted by Pentecostal parents and raised in Manchester to be a missionary, which she wrote about in her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and again twenty-seven years later in her best-selling memoir,Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
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