The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
by Mantel, Hilary
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- ISBN 13
- 9780007480999
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London: 4th Estate, 2020. 1st (1st print). h/b. Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve).. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Shortlisted for the WomenÕs Prize for Fiction 2020
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmithÕs son from Putney emerges from the springÕs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing HenryÕs regime to breaking point, CromwellÕs robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common manÕs vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 ÔMantel has taken us to the dark heart of historyÉand what a showÕ The Times ÔIf you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?Õ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmithÕs son from Putney emerges from the springÕs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing HenryÕs regime to breaking point, CromwellÕs robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common manÕs vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
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- Title
- The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy 3)
- Author
- Mantel, Hilary
- Format/Binding
- H/b
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve).
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st (1st print)
- ISBN 10
- 0007480997
- ISBN 13
- 9780007480999
- Publisher
- 4th Estate
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2020
- Pages
- 883
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6"")
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, historical fiction, Mantel, prize, Booker
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 1.32 g
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