{"product_id":"hamnet-movie-tie-in-edition","title":"Hamnet (Movie Tie-in Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER •\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eBESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn, directed by ACADEMY AWARD® winner Chloé Zhao.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Portrait\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHamnet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down--a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH (Penguin Random House)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47563985354966,"sku":"9798217009152","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8492\/0022\/files\/9798217009152_56574.jpg?v=1765140169","url":"https:\/\/www.riverfrontbooks.com\/products\/hamnet-movie-tie-in-edition","provider":"Riverfront Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}