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100	1		_aMantel, Hilary,
100	1		_d1952-2022, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe mirror & the light / _cHilary Mantel.
246	1		_aThe mirror and the light
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aLondon : _b4th Estate, _c2020.
263			_a2003
300			_a1 online resource
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"--
600	1	0	_aCromwell, Thomas, _cEarl of Essex, _d1485?-1540 _vFiction.
651		0	_aGreat Britain _xHistory _yHenry VIII, 1509-1547 _vFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
690			_aGeneral
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aMantel, Hilary, 1952- _tThe mirror & the light _bFirst edition. _dNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. _z9780805096606 _w(DLC) 2019051189
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