02361cam a2200421 i 4500 1022639400 TxAuBib 20210729120000.0 190807s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019-030390 9780525657606 0525657606 DLC eng DLC rda DLC TxAuBib rda O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972- Hamnet : a novel of the plague / Maggie O'Farrell. 1st Am. ed. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. 305 p. ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is A Borzoi Book". Bklst 05/15/2020. LJ Feb 2020. PW 05/25/2020. Kirkus 07/01/2020. 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. 20210330. Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Fiction. Shakespeare, Hamnet 1585-1596 Fiction. Families Fiction. Plagues Ficiton. Bubonic plague Fiction. Black Death Fictio. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. TXNES