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Barcode37821002399539
LocationMarshall District
TitleThe mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.
AuthorMantel, Hilary, 1952- author.
Call NoFIC MAN
CollectionAdult Fiction

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International Standard Book Number 9780805096606
International Standard Book Number 0805096604
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 823/.914
Personal Name Mantel, Hilary, 1952- author.
Title Statement The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel.
Varying Form of Title Mirror and the light
Edition Statement First U.S edition.
Imprint �20
Imprint New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020.
Physical Description xvii, 757 pages : genealogical table ; 24
Summary, Etc. "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? ...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 publishe
Subject-Personal Name Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 Fictio
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Great Britain History Henry VIII, 1509-1547 Ficti
Index Term-Genre/Form Historical fiction