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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100525657606
ISBN-139780525657606
eBay Product ID (ePID)16038692936
Product Key Features
Book TitleHamnet
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicFamily Life, Literary, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year2020
GenreFiction
AuthorMaggie O'farrell
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight22.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2019-030390
Reviews"It so happens that the child at the center of Hamnet inspired one of civilization's most famous plays, but in Maggie O'Farrell's gifted hands, Hamnet feels as real as my own child. The raw physical life of O'Farrell's Renaissance England is enthralling. But the beating heart of this book is Hamnet's mother - an indelible, dauntless woman. What a sensual, full-throated love song to the lost child." --Amity Gaige " Hamnet is a beautiful read, a devastating one, intricate, and breathtakingly imaginative. It will stay with me a long time" --Rachel Joyce "I'm absolutely blown away by Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET. Love, grief, hope, resilience - the world of this novel is so vivid I could nearly smell the grass in the fields, hear the rain in the gutters. In moments where the story shoots up to heaven I was there, too, grieving with these characters, feeling how lucky we all are to be alive, understanding how desperately we want the people we love to be remembered. It's without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read." --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes "A bold, beautiful, heart-breaking novel. Maggie has taken on both the most famous writer in the world and the mantle of history with effortless grace. In the process she's written the book of her life. I'm wildly jealous!" --Tracy Chevalier "This striking, painfully lovely novel captures the very nature of grief." -- Booklist [starred review] "What could be more common, over centuries and continents, than the death of a child - and yet Maggie O'Farrell, with her flawless sentences and furious heart, somehow makes it new. This story of remarkable people bereft of their boy will leave you shaking with loss but also the love from which family is spun." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it" --Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall "A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written" --Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life "Heartstopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre , inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever" --Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes" --Marian Keyes, author of The Break "I don't know how anyone could fail to love this book. It is a marvel: a great work of imaginative recreation and a great story. It is also a moral achievement to have transformed that young child from being a literary footnote into someone so tenderly alive that part of you wishes he had survived and Hamlet never been written" --Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe, Praise from the UK "What could be more common, over centuries and continents, than the death of a child - and yet Maggie O'Farrell, with her flawless sentences and furious heart, somehow makes it new. This story of remarkable people bereft of their boy will leave you shaking with loss but also the love from which family is spun." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it" --Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall "A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written" --Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life "Heartstopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre , inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever" --Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes" --Marian Keyes, author of The Break "I don't know how anyone could fail to love this book. It is a marvel: a great work of imaginative recreation and a great story. It is also a moral achievement to have transformed that young child from being a literary footnote into someone so tenderly alive that part of you wishes he had survived and Hamlet never been written" --Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe, "It so happens that the child at the center of Hamnet inspired one of civilization's most famous plays, but in Maggie O'Farrell's gifted hands, Hamnet feels as real as my own child. The raw physical life of O'Farrell's Renaissance England is enthralling. But the beating heart of this book is Hamnet's mother - an indelible, dauntless woman. What a sensual, full-throated love song to the lost child." --Amity Gaige " Hamnet is a beautiful read, a devastating one, intricate, and breathtakingly imaginative. It will stay with me a long time" --Rachel Joyce "I'm absolutely blown away by Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET. Love, grief, hope, resilience - the world of this novel is so vivid I could nearly smell the grass in the fields, hear the rain in the gutters. In moments where the story shoots up to heaven I was there, too, grieving with these characters, feeling how lucky we all are to be alive, understanding how desperately we want the people we love to be remembered. It's without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read." --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes "This striking, painfully lovely novel captures the very nature of grief." -- Booklist [starred review] "What could be more common, over centuries and continents, than the death of a child - and yet Maggie O'Farrell, with her flawless sentences and furious heart, somehow makes it new. This story of remarkable people bereft of their boy will leave you shaking with loss but also the love from which family is spun." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it" --Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall "A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written" --Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life "Heartstopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre , inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever" --Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes" --Marian Keyes, author of The Break "I don't know how anyone could fail to love this book. It is a marvel: a great work of imaginative recreation and a great story. It is also a moral achievement to have transformed that young child from being a literary footnote into someone so tenderly alive that part of you wishes he had survived and Hamlet never been written" --Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe, "I'm absolutely blown away by Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET. Love, grief, hope, resilience - the world of this novel is so vivid I could nearly smell the grass in the fields, hear the rain in the gutters. In moments where the story shoots up to heaven I was there, too, grieving with these characters, feeling how lucky we all are to be alive, understanding how desperately we want the people we love to be remembered. It's without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read." --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes Praise from the UK "What could be more common, over centuries and continents, than the death of a child - and yet Maggie O'Farrell, with her flawless sentences and furious heart, somehow makes it new. This story of remarkable people bereft of their boy will leave you shaking with loss but also the love from which family is spun." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it" --Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall "A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written" --Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life "Heartstopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre , inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever" --Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes" --Marian Keyes, author of The Break "I don't know how anyone could fail to love this book. It is a marvel: a great work of imaginative recreation and a great story. It is also a moral achievement to have transformed that young child from being a literary footnote into someone so tenderly alive that part of you wishes he had survived and Hamlet never been written" --Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe, "It so happens that the child at the center of Hamnet inspired one of civilization's most famous plays, but in Maggie O'Farrell's gifted hands, Hamnet feels as real as my own child. The raw physical life of O'Farrell's Renaissance England is enthralling. But the beating heart of this book is Hamnet's mother - an indelible, dauntless woman. What a sensual, full-throated love song to the lost child." --Amity Gaige " Hamnet is a beautiful read, a devastating one, intricate, and breathtakingly imaginative. It will stay with me a long time" --Rachel Joyce "I'm absolutely blown away by Maggie O'Farrell's HAMNET. Love, grief, hope, resilience - the world of this novel is so vivid I could nearly smell the grass in the fields, hear the rain in the gutters. In moments where the story shoots up to heaven I was there, too, grieving with these characters, feeling how lucky we all are to be alive, understanding how desperately we want the people we love to be remembered. It's without a doubt one of the best novels I've ever read." --Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes Praise from the UK "What could be more common, over centuries and continents, than the death of a child - and yet Maggie O'Farrell, with her flawless sentences and furious heart, somehow makes it new. This story of remarkable people bereft of their boy will leave you shaking with loss but also the love from which family is spun." --Emma Donoghue, author of Room "Grief and loss so finely written I could hardly bear to read it" --Sarah Moss, author of Ghost Wall "A bold undertaking, beautifully imagined and written" --Claire Tomalin, author of Charles Dickens: A Life "Heartstopping. Hamnet does for the Shakespeare story what Jean Rhys did for Jane Eyre , inhabiting it, enlarging it and enriching it in ways that will alter the readers view for ever" --Patrick Gale, author of A Place Called Winter "Exquisite, immersive and compelling... deserves to win prizes" --Marian Keyes, author of The Break "I don't know how anyone could fail to love this book. It is a marvel: a great work of imaginative recreation and a great story. It is also a moral achievement to have transformed that young child from being a literary footnote into someone so tenderly alive that part of you wishes he had survived and Hamlet never been written" --Dominic Dromgoole, author of Hamlet, Globe to Globe
Dewey Edition23/eng/20241118
Dewey Decimal822/.92
SynopsisA thrilling departure: A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am , about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son Hamnet--a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-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 literary masterpieces of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing and seductive, an impossible-to-put-down novel from one of our most gifted writers., NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "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. Don't miss Maggie O'Farrell's new novel, The Marriage Portrait !, NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * The bestselling author of The Marriage Portrait delivers a luminous portrait of a marriage, a family ravaged by grief, and a boy whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time. * "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 Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Chloé Zhao and starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn. England, 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.
LC Classification NumberPR6065.F36H35 2020
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- 24 Dec, 2020
Beautifully Written And Compelling Novel
'Hamnet" is a well-crafted and highly engaging story. Maggie O'Ferrell's descriptive language is just marvelous, bringing to life the sights, sounds, and smells of city and country life in 16th century England. Her talent for description also helped this reader feel like she knows the characters personally. Because of the current COVID pandemic, the story, based on real life events, is especially compelling.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 13 Apr, 2021
Wow and Wow!
This work was hard to put down. Excellent to the nth degree! Great writing by a super author. Highly recommend.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 24 Mar, 2021
Worth reading
Beautiful prose. The characters range from petty to heroic, stolid to spiritual, weak to strong, clueless to insightful, but they all seem very real and plausible. The story involves tragedy and heartache, but then again so does life itself (and Shakespeare, for that matter).Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 23 Jun, 2023
Great Book
Great bookVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 13 May, 2022
Great read
Love this book! Also great price . Writing is beautiful Thank you!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 15 Apr, 2021
A fine reading experience
A lovely story beautifully written.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 09 Feb, 2022
Great for our ladies book club.
Better than I thought. Easy to read.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 11 Nov, 2021
Thanks this was a great book!
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 25 Oct, 2021
New insights
Interesting premise. Well written.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 15 Apr, 2024
A surprisingly compelling read
A Surprisingly Compelling Read!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
