The Resource Hour of the witch, Chris Bohjalian
Hour of the witch, Chris Bohjalian
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Resource Information
The item Hour of the witch, Chris Bohjalian represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbour is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary -- a woman who harbours secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony -- soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumour. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages (large print)
- Note
- Optimized reading formats
- Isbn
- 9780593396513
- Label
- Hour of the witch
- Title
- Hour of the witch
- Statement of responsibility
- Chris Bohjalian
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbour is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary -- a woman who harbours secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony -- soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumour. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt
- Cataloging source
- NjBwBT
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1962-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Bohjalian, Chris
- Dewey number
- 813.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- Random House large print
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Marital violence
- Trials (Witchcraft)
- Malicious accusation
- Witch hunting
- Puritans
- Wife abuse
- Massachusetts
- Boston (Mass.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Hour of the witch, Chris Bohjalian
- Note
- Optimized reading formats
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000069311216
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593396513
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1255737715
- Label
- Hour of the witch, Chris Bohjalian
- Note
- Optimized reading formats
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000069311216
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- Large print edition.
- Extent
- 592 pages (large print)
- Form of item
- large print
- Isbn
- 9780593396513
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- large print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1255737715
Subject
- Large print books
- Malicious accusation -- Fiction
- Marital violence -- Fiction
- Massachusetts -- Fiction
- Puritans -- Fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Trials (Witchcraft) -- Fiction
- Wife abuse -- Fiction
- Witch hunting -- Fiction
- Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 17th century -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
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