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|author= Toni Morrison
|title= God Help the Child
|rating= 4
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary=A truly complex and emotionally raw portrayal, that seeks to cover issues of race, gender, and paedophilia. A slim volume, yes, but one that is powerful in its punch.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555921</amazonuk>
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|author=Jesus Carrasco and Margaret Jull Costa (translator)
|summary=This is the inaugural volume of a new series of Shakespeare retellings from Hogarth Press. Still to come: Margaret Atwood on ''The Tempest'', Howard Jacobson on ''The Merchant of Venice'' and Anne Tyler on ''The Taming of the Shrew'', among others. How is this first book? It's pretty good as Winterson novels go, incorporating Shakespearean themes of time, deception and adoption and turning bears and statues into metaphors while remaining loyal to the essence of the plot. Yet two crucial elements of the play don't make sense in a modern setting, and in the end I felt this added nothing to my enjoyment of the original.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781090297</amazonuk>
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