Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell.
"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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525657606
- ISBN: 0525657606
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2020]
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Subject: | Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Fiction. Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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- 50 of 56 copies available at SPARK Libraries.
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Dillsburg Area Public Library | Adults OFA Fiction (Text) | 34001001387057 | Adult Area | Available | - |
DuBois Public Library | FIC O'FARRELL (Text) | 61000100077458 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Emmaus Public Library | FIC O'FARRELL, MAGGIE (Text) | 36446002016304 | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/02/2024 |
Exeter Community Library | OFA (Text) | 33249024796108 | Fiction | Checked Out | 05/15/2024 |
Gettysburg Library | HIST FIC O'FARRELL MAGGIE (Text) | 35740635637358 | Fiction | Available | - |
Glatfelter Memorial Library | Adults OFA Fiction (Text) | 34216000922072 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Green Free Library (Wellsboro) | OFA (Text) | 92523724 | GFWM Main Room | Available | - |
Hollidaysburg Area Public Library | F O'Fa 2020 (Text) | 10HOL00046119+ | Adult Fiction | Checked Out | 05/22/2024 |
Huntingdon County Library | F O'FA (Text) | 30298100581846 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction O'Farrell (Text) | 39427103512802 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |