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Hamnet : a novel of the plague Cover Image Book Book

Hamnet : a novel of the plague

O'Farrell, Maggie 1972- (author.).

Summary: "A thrilling departure: a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's 11 year old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in 15th century Britain--and the years leading up to the production of his great play. England, 1580. A young Latin tutor--penniless, bullied by a violent father--falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman--a wild creature who walks her family's estate with a falcon on her shoulder and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer. Agnes understands plants and potions better than she does people, but once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose gifts as a writer are just beginning to awaken when his beloved young son succumbs to bubonic plague. A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a hypnotic recreation of the story that inspired one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent departure from one of our most gifted novelists"--

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780525657606
  • ISBN: 0525657606
  • ISBN: 9781350416574
  • ISBN: 1350416576
  • ISBN: 9780525657613
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    305 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First American edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
  • Badges:
    • Top Holds Over Last 5 Years: 5 / 5.0

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General Note:
"This Is A Borzoi Book" -- taken from title page verso.

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  • 37 out of 57 copies are currently available at PINES. (Show)
  • 3 out of 3 copies are currently available at Athens Regional Library System. (Show)
  • 2 out of 2 copies are currently available at Athens-Clarke County Library.

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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		FIC O'FARREL ( Send Text)
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      Athens-Clarke County Library 		FIC O'FARREL ( Send Text)
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