02564cam a2200397 i 4500 498796300 TxAuBib 20210401120000.0 190807s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019030390 9780525657606 hbk. 0525657606 hbk. (OCoLC)1112145674 TxAuBib rda O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 305 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Originally published: London : Tinder Press, 2020. "This is a Borzoi book.". "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. 20210401. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Fiction. Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 Fiction. Families Fiction. Spouses Fiction. Playwriting Fiction. Stratford-upon-Avon (England) History 16th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Biographical fiction. O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-, New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.