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Henry Holt
October 2009
On Sale: October 13, 2009
Featuring: Thomas Cromwell
570 pages
ISBN: 0805080686
EAN: 9780805080681
Kindle: B002UZ5K4Y
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In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one
man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and
ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the
king dies without a male heir, the country could be
destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his
marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope
and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s
freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey,
and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a
wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist
and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of
energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his
personal losses, implacable in his ambition. But Henry is
volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps
him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his
triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a
half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals
fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. With a
vast array of characters, overflowing with incident, the
novel re-creates an era when the personal and political are
separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited
power but a single failure means death.
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