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In this first United States edition, Maggie O'Farrell, author of Hamnet, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Women's Prize for Fiction, and The Distance Between Us, sets her story in Renaissance Italy.  In 1550's Florence,  the grand duke's youngest daughter, Lucrezia de' Medici, is thrust into a marriage, when her older sister dies, and Lucrezia takes her place for her father's political reasons.  Lucrezia enters the court of her husband, Alonso, a duke, a man she scarcely knows.  However, she does learn that her future turns on her producing an heir to her husband's dynasty.

JUST THE FACTS:

Title:                          The Marriage Portrait

Author(s):                  Maggie O'Farrell

Edition:                      First United States edition

Format:                      Hardcover book (9 1/2" x 6 1/2")

Date of publication:   2022

Length:                      339  pages

Special features:        Author's note and acknowledgments

Publisher:                   Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House LLC

Condition:                   Like new 

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