| International Standard Book Number |
9781984898876 (paperback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1984898876 (paperback)
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
823/.914 23
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| Personal Name |
O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- author.
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| Title Statement |
Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell.
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| Edition Statement |
First Vintage Books edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2020
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Vintage Books, 2021.
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| Physical Description |
305 pages ; 21 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. fast (OCoLC)fst00029048
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Fiction. nli
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596 Fiction. nli
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hathaway, Anne, 1556?-1623 Fiction.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hathaway, Anne, 1556?-1623 Fiction. nli
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Hathaway, Anne, 1556?-1623. fast (OCoLC)fst00252975
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, Hamnet, 1585-1596. fast (OCoLC)fst01948102
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Plague Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Spouses Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Creative writing Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Literary. bisacsh
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726537
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction. gsafd
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. fast (OCoLC)fst01726640
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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