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050 00$aPR6063.A438$bM36 2020
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100 1 $aMantel, Hilary,$d1952-$eauthor.
245 14$aThe mirror & the light /$cHilary Mantel.
246 1 $aMirror and the light.
250 $aFirst U.S edition.
264 1$aNew York :$bHenry Holt and Company,$c2020.
264 4$c©2020.
300 $axvii, 757 pages :$bgenealogical tables ;$c25 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia.
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier.
490 1 $aThomas Cromwell Trilogy ;$v[3].
500 $aSequel to Wolf hall (2009) and Bring up the bodies (2012).
520 $a""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queenbefore Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall andBring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between presentand past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 00$aHenry$bVIII,$cKing of England,$d1491-1547$vFiction.
600 10$aCromwell, Thomas,$cEarl of Essex,$d1485?-1540$vFiction.
650 0$aCourts and courtiers$vFiction.
650 0$aHistorical fiction.
650 0$aPolitical fiction.
651 0$aGreat Britain$xHistory$yHenry VIII, 1509-1547$vFiction.
700 1 $iSequel to:$aMantel, Hilary,$d1952-$tWolf hall.
700 1 $iSequel to:$aMantel, Hilary,$d1952-$tBring up the bodies.
830 0$aThomas Cromwell Trilogy ;$v[3].