02364cam a2200361 i 4500 1032475204 TxAuBib 20231103120000.0 210518t20212020||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781984898876 paperback 1984898876 paperback (OCoLC)1251642131 TxAuBib rda O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-, author. Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell. First Vintage Books edition. New York : Vintage Books, 2021. ©2020. 305 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20231103. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Fiction. Shakespeare, Hamnet 1585-1596 Fiction. Hathaway, Anne 1556?-1623 Fiction. Plague Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. fast Fiction. lcgft TXBRI