Juliet's nurse / a novel by Lois Leveen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leveen, Lois, 1968-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Adaptations.

Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.

History.

Wet nurses.

Italy.

Juliet (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Juliet.

Juliet (Fictitious character).

Romeo (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Romeo.

Romeo (Fictitious character).

Wet nurses--Fiction.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Grief--Fiction.

Grief.

Verona (Italy)--Fiction.

Verona (Italy).

Italy--History--1268-1492--Fiction.

Italy--Verona.

Genre:

Adaptations.

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Physical Description:

375 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Emily Bestler books/Atria Books hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2014.

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.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781476757445

1476757445

9781476757452

1476757453

OCLC:

880122430