02616cam a2200433 i 4500 626174970 TxAuBib 20210505120000.0 200505s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020018715 9780385542432 hardcover 0385542437 hardcover (OCoLC)1154112062 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC OCLCO rda DLC BDX YDX OCLCF ORX WIQ OCLCO MJ8 OCLCO TH8 ZAE OCLCO OI6 JQM TXAAL TxAuBib OCLCO BDX YDX OCLCF ORX WIQ OCLCO MJ8 OCLCO TH8 ZAE OCLCO OI6 JQM TXAAL TxAuBib rda Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-, author. Hour of the witch : a novel / Chris Bohjalian. First Edition. New York : Doubleday, [2021] ©2021. 405 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-405). 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 finds 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. 20210505. Puritans Massachusetts Fiction. Marital violence Fiction. Malicious accusation Fiction. Trials (Witchcraft) Massachusetts Fiction. Massachusetts History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Fiction. Suspense fiction. Historical fiction. Mystery fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) Fiction. Bohjalian, Chris, New York : Doubleday, 2021 Hour of the witch. TXAAL