Description: CONDITION: NEW 2020 Henry Holt hardcover (blue boards, 2 lbs.) & dust jacket (in mylar cover), first US edition, second printing. Deckle edges. CONTENT: This is a book in 6 parts with lots of information to keep the reader on track: Cast of Characters, Simplified Tudor Genealogical Chart, and an interesting Author's Note. Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian. With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, 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. The story begins in 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, 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, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, 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. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Shipping via USPS media mail within 2 days or rder. All books clean. Questions welcome & answered.
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Book Title: The Mirror & the Light
Book Series: Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
Original Language: English
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hard cover
Publication Date: 2020-03-10
Language: English
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, DJ in mylar cover, Deckle edges, Story in 6 parts, Tudor Genealogical Chart, Author's Note, Cast of Characters - detailed, Blue boards
Topic: History: England's The Tudors, Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII Wives, History: England
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Intended Audience: Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First US edition, 2nd printing
California Prop 65 Warning: NONE
Pages: 784
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Historical Fiction
Era: 1500s
Author: Mantel, Hilary
Genre: Historical Fiction
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
