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Jul 17, 2020 · His latest novel, “Godwin,” is about an adrift hero searching for a soccer superstar. Keila Shaheen’s self-published best seller book, “The Shadow Work Journal,” shows how radically book ...
Aug 30, 2022 · Maggie O’Farrell Looks for Stories Hiding in Plain Sight Her latest book, “The Marriage Portrait,” imagines the life of the girl who is thought to have inspired Robert Browning’s famous ...
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May 21, 2021 · Maggie O’Farrell’s “Hamnet,” one of last year’s most widely acclaimed novels, imagines the life of William Shakespeare, his wife, Anne (or Agnes) Hathaway, and the couple’s son Hamnet, who died...
Aug 30, 2021 · Which led me to Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet, published last year to universal acclaim and named one of 2020’s five best works of fiction by the New York Times Book Review. I was late to this stunning beauty, but in this case tardiness was a virtue: I picked up Hamnet at the moment I needed it most.
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The character of William Shakespeare in this book is humanized and made smaller. I understand why O’Farrell might want to do that, to avoid writing yet another tribute to the greatness of the towering figure of the William Shakespeare. However, I have to admit that this aspect of the book wasn’t entirely satisfying to me. Unlike his portrayal in th...
As mentioned previously, there’s definitely a lot of fiction mixed up in here. For example, a colorful interlude in the book involves a petrified Hamnet and a doctor wearing the distinctively creepy beaked plague mask that you’ve probably seen before. The problem is, in the book this happens in 1596, and the design is commonly attributed to Charles...
Hamnet is a moving and uncomplicated tale about a marriage, a family and the loss of a child. It focuses on the character of Agnes and offers unique rendition of Shakespeare’s life. I enjoyed the story quite a bit, the writing is lovely, and there’s a lot to like about Maggie O’Farrell’s vivid and engaging version of Agnes and William’s story. I fo...
Jul 21, 2020 · Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ reimagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s only son. Review by Ron Charles. July 21, 2020 at 8:00 a.m. EDT. On Aug. 11, 1596, William Shakespeare’s only son,...
‘Bluets’ Review: This Maggie Nelson Adaptation Is All About the Vibes. How do you bring an almost plotless book of elliptical fragments to the stage? The director Katie Mitchell has tried with...
