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020 _a9781250622587
040 _cQCPL
_erda
082 _aFic
100 1 _aMantel, Hilary
_eauthor
245 1 4 _aThe mirror & the light
_c/ Hilary Mantel
246 1 _aThe mirror and the light
250 _aFirst U.S. edition
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHenry Holt and Company,
_c2020
300 _axvii, 757 pages :
_bgenealogical tables
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
490 _aWolf Hall trilogy,
_vbook 3
520 _a""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" 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 blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. 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 Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's 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 & 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 man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage"-- Provided by publisher.
650 _aCourts and courtiers
_vFiction
655 7 _2lcgft
_910555
_aPolitical fiction
690 _910981
_aHistorical fiction
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK