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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.
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- ISBN: 9780525657606
- ISBN: 0525657606
- ISBN: 9781984898876
- ISBN: 1984898876
- Physical Description: 305 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Ardsley Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31000151254235 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/24/2025 |
| Bedford Free Library | FIC O'FA (Text) | 31002150806965 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Bedford Free Library | PBK O (Text) | 31002150787835 | Paperback | Available | - |
| Bedford Hills Free Library | O'FARRELL (Text) | 31003151569628 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Briarcliff Manor Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31036150954490 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31004151299133 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Bronxville Public Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31004151753584 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31005154376513 | Item On Display | Available | - |
| Chappaqua Library | FICTION O'FARRELL (Text) | 31005154389292 | Fiction | Available | - |
| Croton Free Library | FICTION/OFARRELL (Text) | 31006151809654 | Fiction | Checked out | 07/21/2025 |