Books & Puzzles
"Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague" by Maggie O'Farrell
- Item Number
- 305
- Estimated Value
- 17 USD
- Sold
- 15 USD to icc1a1d24
The winning bid will go to FrontStream Global Fund (tax ID 26-3265577), a 501c3 nonprofit organization, which will send the donation to UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL (tax ID 042835334) on behalf of the winner.
- Number of Bids
- 3 - Bid History
Item Description
This paperback novel won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction.
The setting is England in 1580. The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor -- penniless and bullied by a violent father -- falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. 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 just taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
"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
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Jacquie Crimins
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