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Hour of the witch, a novel, Chris Bohjalian

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Hour of the witch, a novel, Chris Bohjalian

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Hour of the witch

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Chris Bohjalian

Sub title

a novel

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 neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary--a woman who harbors 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 rumor. When tainted objects are discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from the Deerfield home, Mary must fight to escape not only her marriage but also the gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted thriller from on of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying novel of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt."

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