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Collection:
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Adult Fiction |
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Call Number:
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Author:
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Mantel, Hilary |
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Title:
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The mirror & the light |
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Summary, etc. note:
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""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"-- |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780805096613 |
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(ebook) |
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(hardcover) |
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Canceled/invalid ISBN:
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9780805096606 |
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Description conventions:
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rda |
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Authentication code:
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pcc |
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Geographic area code:
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e-uk--- |
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Classification number:
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PR6063.A438 |
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Edition number:
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23 |
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Classification number:
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823/.914 |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1952- |
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Relator term:
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author. |
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Statement of responsibility, etc.:
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Hilary Mantel. |
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Title proper/short title:
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The mirror and the light |
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Edition statement:
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First edition |
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Place of publication:
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New York |
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Name of publisher:
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Henry Holt & Company |
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Date of publication:
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2013 |
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Projected publication date:
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2003 |
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New York : |
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Henry Holt and Company, |
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2020. |
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Extent:
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1 online resource |
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Other physical details:
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754 pages |
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text |
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txt |
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rdamedia |
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computer |
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rdacarrier |
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online resource |
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nc |
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Provided by publisher. |
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Source of acquisition:
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B & T 3/14/20 |
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Purchase price:
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30.00 |
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Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
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Personal name:
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Cromwell, Thomas, |
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Titles and other words associated with a name:
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Earl of Essex, |
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Dates associated with a name:
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1485?-1540 |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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Geographic name:
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Great Britain |
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Form subdivision:
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Fiction. |
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General subdivision:
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History |
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Chronological subdivision:
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Henry VIII, 1509-1547 |
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Source of term:
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gsafd |
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Genre/form data or focus term:
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Historical fiction. |
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Main entry heading:
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Mantel, Hilary, 1952- |
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Edition:
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First edition. |
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Place, publisher, and date of publication:
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New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. |
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Display text:
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Print version: |
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Title:
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The mirror & the light |
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Record control number:
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(DLC) 2019051189 |
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International Standard Book Number:
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9780805096606 |
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acquire |
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ecip ebook |
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policy default |
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ecip ebook 2019-11-26 |
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LC online resource |
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2019-11-26 |
Bibliography Copy Information:
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Due Back |
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51070 |
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