| Edition |
First American edition. |
| Description |
305 pages ; 21 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Book discussion set |
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Book discussion set.
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| Note |
First Vintage books edition, May 2021 |
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"This Is A Borzoi Book" -- taken from title page verso. |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction.
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Plague -- Fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Dramatists -- Fiction.
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Spouses -- Fiction.
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Fathers and sons -- Fiction.
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Sons -- Death -- Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- Hamnet New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 9780525657613 (DLC) 2019030391 |
| ISBN |
9780525657606 |
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0525657606 |
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9781984898876 (pbk.) |
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1984898876 |
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