The Gap of Time: A Novel

by Jeanette Winterson

Book, 2015

Publication

Hogarth (2015), Edition: First Edition, 288 pages

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2016)

Content and Summary Info

Bisexual Content: A main character (cisgender man) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.

Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Two main characters (non-bisexual) are black.

Publisher's Summary: New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up – light as a star – and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage the jealousy he feels towards his best friend and his wife. Is the newborn baby even his? New Bohemia. 17 years later. A boy and a girl are falling in love but there's a lot they don't know about who they are and where they come from. Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of the original but tells a contemporary story...

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