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."--
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- 60 of 71 copies available at Westchester Library System.
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| Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31011151380490 |
Checked out 05/13/2024 |
| Hendrick Hudson Free Library | O'FARRELL, MAGGIE (Text) Fiction |
31016151713582 |
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| Irvington Public Library | FIC O'FARRELL, M (Text) Fiction |
31012154465817 |
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| John C. Hart Memorial Library | O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31030155014731 |
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| Katonah Village Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31013151876022 |
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| Larchmont Public Library | O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31014152961037 |
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| Lewisboro Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31032151402068 |
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| Lewisboro Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) Fiction |
31032151403058 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | HISTORICAL FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152570660 |
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| Mamaroneck Public Library District | HISTORICAL FICTION (Text) Fiction |
31015152618162 |
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