Hamlet

ISBN: 076364451X

Author: Marsden, John

Condition: Used

The Dane as never seen before - in a daring, dazzling, sexy prose retelling of Shakespeares tragedy by best-selling author John Marsden.Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, but Hamlet cant be sure whats causing the stench. His rage at his mothers infidelities - together with his greed for the sensual Ophelia and his dead fathers call to revenge a "murder most foul" - have his mind in chaos, and he wants to scatter his traitorous uncles insides across the fields. But was it really his fathers ghost that night on the ramparts, or a hell-fiend sent to trick him? "Action is hot," he tells Ophelia, who lives shut up in a tower with her longings and lust. "Action is courage, and reflection is cowardly. Picking up the knife has the colors of truth. As soon as I hesitate. . . ." In this dark, erotically charged, beautifully crafted novel, John Marsden brings one of Shakespeares most riveting characters to full-blooded life in a narrative of intense psychological complexity.

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