Hamnet : a novel of the plague
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First edition.
"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."--
Available copies
- 60 of 67 copies available at Westchester Library System.
Current holds
8 current holds with 67 total copies.View other formats and editions
| Location | Call Number / Shelving Location |
Barcode | Status / Due Date |
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| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31000151254235 |
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| Bedford Free Library | FIC O'FA (Text) Fiction |
31002150806965 |
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| Bedford Free Library | PBK O (Text) Paperback |
31002150787835 |
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| Bedford Hills Free Library | O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31003151569628 |
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| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31036150954490 |
Checked out 02/01/2025 |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31004151299133 |
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| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31004151753584 |
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| Chappaqua Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31005154376513 |
Checked out 02/01/2025 |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31005500426046 |
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| Croton Free Library | FICTION/OFARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31006151809654 |
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