Hilary Mantel
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| Original Title: | Bring Up the Bodies |
| Edition Language: | English URL https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780805090031 |
| Series: | Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #2 |
| Characters: | Anne Boleyn, Catherine of Aragon, Jane Seymour, Thomas Howard, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Cromwell, Thomas Seymour, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset, Thomas Cranmer, Rafe Sadler, Stephen Gardiner, Thomas Boleyn, Henry VIII of England, George Boleyn, Jane Boleyn, Richard Riche |
| Setting: | England,1536 |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (2012), Costa Book Award for Novel (2012), Audie Award for Literary Fiction (2013), Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee (2013), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2013) Walter Scott Prize Nominee (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012), Waterstones Book of the Year Nominee (2012), Costa Book of the Year (2012) |
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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0805090037 (ISBN13: 9780805090031)The sequel to Hilary Mantel's international bestseller and Man Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
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Though he battled for years to marry her, Henry VIII has become disenchanted with the audacious Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son, and her sharp intelligence and strong will have alienated his old friends and the noble families of England.
When the discarded Katherine, Henry's first wife, dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice, setting in motion a dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason.
At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over a few terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally himself with his enemies. What price will he pay for Annie's head?
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| Title | : | Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #2) |
| Author | : | Hilary Mantel |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First US edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 412 pages |
| Published | : | May 8th 2012 by Henry Holt & Company, Inc. |
| Categories | : | Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. European Literature. British Literature. Literary Fiction. Audiobook. English History. Tudor Period |
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Ratings: 4.29 From 63830 Users | 7194 ReviewsWrite Up Of Books Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell Trilogy #2)
Of course if you loved Wolf Hall youre going to love this too. Its slightly different in tone and texture to Wolf Hall though. Less richly dense and intimate; quicker paced, covering as it does a much smaller time frame than Wolf Hall. I read somewhere Mantel heeded criticism of her excessive and confusing use of the pronoun he in Wolf Hall. And its true she is much clearer here, always referring to Cromwell by name whenever there might be confusion. What this does is remove some of theI came to this sequel thinking it could not possibly stand up to the first installment. So, I was prepared to like this book, but not love it as much as I did Wolf Hall. But I was wrong: it does, and I did. It's one of those works that I lingered over the last pages of, not wanting it to end: the prose is that good. And it installed itself into my psyche. After putting it down at night and as I fell asleep, words, phrases, sentences rolled through my head. (This has happened to me before, but
Agree, agree with those here - brilliant writing. The last books I liked this much, hated to end was Herman Wouk's War & Remembrance and Winds of
In "Bring up the Bodies" Hilary Mantel has written a shorter and tighter novel than its predecessor "Wolf Hall", and it is just as good! I tore through the book in a few days, and I am eagerly anticipating the third and final installment in the series.Most of the joy of "Bring up the Bodies" is Mantel's lovely writing, and her masterful creation and depiction of the series' main protagonist Thomas Cromwell. The story is told mainly from a third person perspective, but it is an omniscient
Most people in the English speaking world know the history of Henry VIII from their earliest school days or from the many books, films and TV series that the episode has inspired. Some of us cringe when we hear of yet another fictional version, yet another glittery effort to sensationalise the intrigue of the Tudor court and create even more farfetched scenarios around the details of the wooing and discarding of Henrys wives. How then can Hilary Mantels series be of any interest? I would argue
I just finished BUTB and liked it better than Wolf Hall. I was enthralled by the end of it and cant wait to dive into The Mirror & the Light. Wow,
'All the players gone,' Wriothesley says. 'All four who carried the cardinal to Hell; and also the poor fool Mark who made a ballad of their exploits.' In this second chilling volume of her Cromwell trilogy, Mantel shows just how deep her 'hero' can be and how his emotions linger and fester beneath the cool, efficient, surface. The cardinal may have been dragged down a whole book ago but, for Cromwell, he's not forgotten - and the four young men who once made entertainment of his death to the
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