Wolf Hall
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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 lacking a male heir, the country could be ruined 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 tough, 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 challenger, but what will be the fee of his triumph?
In unique 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-makes an era when the personal and political are separated by a hairbreadth, where success brings unlimited power but a single failure means death.
Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn’t stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels, histories, biographies, and plays–even past Henry himself–confident in the knowledge that to recast history’s most mercurial sovereign, it’s not the King she needs to see, but one of the King’s most mysterious agents. Enter Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man and remarkable polymath who ascends to the King’s right hand. Rigorously pragmatic and forwards-thinking, Cromwell has small interest in what motivates his Majesty, and although he makes way for Henry’s marriage to the infamous Anne Boleyn, it’s the future of a free England that he honors above all else and hopes to secure. Mantel plots with a sleight of hand, building full use of her masterful grasp on the facts lacking weighing down her prose. The opening cast of characters and family tree trees may give initial intermission to some readers, but persevere: the witty, whip-smart lines volleying the action forwards may convince you a fleeting stay in the Tower of London might not be so terrible… provided you could bring a copy of Wolf Hall along. –Anne Bartholomew
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This book won the 2009 Booker Prize? I can’t judge it. It starts with a fight between a son and an abusive father that is absolutely unbelievable, I can’t even place which century we are in. The writing is slow, dull, unbelievable and inherently amateurish. The writer is a stupid, semi-educated, barely-literate English woman. This is a book of the lowest category and a loud slap that breaks her jaw is what the writer deserves.
TUDORGAY-> And Enid Blyton’s Noddy series is beyond you!
Uncle Atkins -> Several times!!! It is the spell-checker, you ancient fool! Maybe you are on Atkins diet which causes high BP and diminished eye-sight. Go and join a night-school to get some basic education on how to behave like a human being..no manners at all!
T. Price -> Are you related to that third-class Brit Model Katie Fee? At least, you talk as if you share the same IQ? As a name said “A small knowledge is a treacherous thing” applies to you.
This is indeed a milestone ( reaching 100). My thanks to all who voted against my review. I never know that path to truth could be so joyful. The writer is an idiot and persons who read/liked it are double-idiots!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Fee for the Kindle version the same as hard take in version? That will not work in the Kindle community.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was really looking forwards to this book. It lost me after about 100 pages. Life is too fleeting to struggle!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is a perfectly horrible book. The tale is completely obscured by detail. I finally quit half way through. I feel used by the fact that this book won any prize at all, notwithstanding the booker.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
dull there are few books i start that i do not end. this is one. i made it through 16 percent and could not stand it. i establish it excellent for putting you to sleep. do not spend the extra money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5