O'Farrell, Maggie,  1972- <br/><br/>
Hamnet :  a novel of the plague  / 
Maggie O'Farrell. 
 - First American edition. 
 - 305 pages ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/> "This is a Borzoi Book." 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780525657606 0525657606 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>9780525657606 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2019030390 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 --Fiction.<br/>Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 --Fiction.<br/>Hathaway, Anne, 1556?-1623 --Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Plague--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographical fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6065.F36  / H35 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>823/.914