Juliet's nurse a novel
A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newbo...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Emily Bestler Books/Atria,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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| Summary: | A "new telling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, told from the perspective of Juliet's nurse. In Verona, a city ravaged by plague and political rivalries, a mother mourning the death of her day-old infant enters the household of the powerful Cappelletti family to become the wet-nurse to their newborn baby. As she serves her beloved Juliet over the next fourteen years, the nurse learns the Cappelletti's darkest secrets. Those secrets-- and the nurse's deep personal grief-- erupt across five momentous days of love and loss that destroy a daughter, and a family"--Amazon.com. |
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| Physical Description: | 375 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781476757445 (hbk.) 1476757445 (hbk.) |
