Bibliograph

Juliet's nurse, a novel, Lois Leveen

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Juliet's nurse, a novel, Lois Leveen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Juliet's nurse

Oclc number

880122430

Responsibility statement

Lois Leveen

Sub title

a novel

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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