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Author Bohjalian, Chris, 1962- author.

Title Hour of the witch / Chris Bohjalian.

Publisher New York, NY : Doubleday Books, 2021.
©2021.

Copies

ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS
 Ashland adult fiction  BOHJALIAN    AVAILABLE
 Bayfield adult fiction  FIC BOH    AVAILABLE
 Boulder Junction adult fiction  FIC BOH    AVAILABLE
 Cable adult fiction  MYS BOH    AVAILABLE
 Drummond adult fiction  F BOH    AVAILABLE
 Eagle River adult fiction  FIC BOH    AVAILABLE
 Grantsburg adult fiction  BOHJALIAN    AVAILABLE
 Hayward adult and young adult fiction  BOH    AVAILABLE
 Hurley adult fiction  F Boh    AVAILABLE
 Iron River adult fiction  F BOH    AVAILABLE

Edition First edition.
Descript 405 pages ; 25 cm.
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 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 thriller from one of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying novel of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch hunt.
Subject Puritan women -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Marital violence -- Fiction.
Puritans -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Malicious accusation -- Fiction.
Abused wives -- Fiction.
Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.
Witches -- Fiction.
Boston (Mass.) -- 17th century -- Fiction.
Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction.
Genre Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
ISBN/ISSN 0385542437 (hardcover)
9780385542432 (hardcover)
9780385547956 (hardcover)
9780525432692 (paperback)
0525432698 (paperback)