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A review by ferna
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
4.0
Not a book I would have read on my own. Too melodramatic, but then, it tells you beforehand it's based on Shakespeare, doesn't it?
If it was not for that, for the directness of it telling you is based on a previous work, this novel can well stand alone.
As a XXI century retelling it is quite great and it is because of that, that the XXI century elements are so well connected with the story, that this novel could just stand on its own.
However, all melodrama that can be found now is in one way or another a retelling of a retelling of Shakespeare.
If it was not for that, for the directness of it telling you is based on a previous work, this novel can well stand alone.
As a XXI century retelling it is quite great and it is because of that, that the XXI century elements are so well connected with the story, that this novel could just stand on its own.
However, all melodrama that can be found now is in one way or another a retelling of a retelling of Shakespeare.