9780525657606-0525657606-Hamnet

Hamnet

ISBN-13: 9780525657606
ISBN-10: 0525657606
Edition: First American Edition
Author: Maggie OFarrell
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Knopf
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780525657606
ISBN-10: 0525657606
Edition: First American Edition
Author: Maggie OFarrell
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Knopf
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Hamnet (ISBN-13: 9780525657606 and ISBN-10: 0525657606), written by authors Maggie OFarrell, was published by Knopf in 2020. With an overall rating of 5.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Hamnet (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.4.

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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 

"Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare's life... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." --The Boston Globe

In 1580's England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this "exceptional historical novel" (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction.

Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family's land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.

A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.

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May 18, 2021

A fascinating read, but I am biased as I love anything Maggie O'Farrell writes. This book really takes you into life in Shakespeare's time. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

You do have to keep track of three story threads; one when Will meets his wife, one when he first goes to London to seek his fame, and one when his son Hamnet dies.

Northing, nothing, nothing