Hamnet : a novel of the plague /
A thrilling departure, a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-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, bul...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2020.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | A thrilling departure, a short, piercing, deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-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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| Physical Description: | 305 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780525657606 0525657606 |