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020			_a9780007580835 [paperback]
040			_aUniversity of Cebu-Banilad _cUniversity of Cebu-Banilad
100			_aMantel, Hilary, _eauthor.
245			_aThe mirror and the light / _cHilary Mantel.
260			_aGreat Britain : _bFourth Estate, _cc2020.
300			_axiv, 883 pages : _c24 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aTwice Winner of the Man Booker Prize.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
521			_aAdult
541			_xLauron, Rodello _yGeneral Education _zFiction
546			_aEnglish
600			_aCromwell, Thomas, _d1485?-1540 _vFiction.
651			_aGreat Britain _vFiction. _xHistory _yHenry VIII, 1509-1547
655			_aHistorical fiction.
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998			_cadryann[new] _d05/26/2025
999			_c13609 _d13609