{"product_id":"hamnet-1","title":"Hamnet","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER - Now a major motion picture starring ACADEMY AWARD(R) winner Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by Chloé Zhao. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe acclaimed author of the Reese's Book Club pick \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait \u003c\/i\u003edelivers a deeply moving novel about the death of Shakespeare's eleven-year-old son, Hamnet, and the years leading up to the production of his great play \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Miraculous. . . . Brilliant. . . . A novel told with the urgency of a whispered prayer--or curse. . . . A richly drawn and intimate portrait of 16th-century English life set against the arrival of one devastating death.\" --Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEngland, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51941946491111,"sku":"9781984898876","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_6dc48769-8b6c-4239-bc05-0b01a0363078.jpg?v=1775241914","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/hamnet-1","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}