01690cam a2200337 i 45000010009000000050017000090080041000260100017000670200031000840350013001150400032001280420008001600500025001681000039001932450057002322500028002892600010003172640041003273000022003683360026003903370028004163380027004445000047004715200549005186000047010676000046011146550033011606550020011936550017012137760122012302112341020260122125614.0190807s2020    nyu           000 1 eng    a  2019030390  a9781472223821q(paperback)  a21123410  aDLCbengcDLCerdadDLCdAU  apcc00aPR6065.F36bH35 20211 aO'Farrell, Maggie,d1972-eauthor.10aHamnet :ba novel of the plague /cMaggie O'Farrell.  aFirst American edition.  c2020. 1aNew York :bAlfred A. Knopf,c©2021  a372 pages c25 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a"This is A Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.  aOn a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that Hamnet will not survive the week. Hamnet is a novel inspired by the son of a famous playwright: a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, but whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays ever written10aShakespeare, William,d1564-1616vFiction.10aShakespeare, Hamnet,d1585-1596vFiction. 7aBiographical fiction.2gsafd 7aFiction.2lcgft 0aPrint books.08iOnline version:aO'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-tHamnetdNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.z9780525657613w(DLC) 2019030391