Wolf Hall: A Novel (Man Booker Prize)
by Hilary Mantel
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Author: Hilary MantelEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-10-13
ISBN: 0805080686
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
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- ISBN13: 9780805080681
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Book Review: "A jumped-up nobody"
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a novel on the subjective mode. It's told in the usual third person, however, the incessant use of the "he" to describe the protagonist Thomas Cromwell forces the reader to pay attention and follow the novel as s/he her/himself views the action developing from Cromwell's viewpoint - something, in written terms, as Velazquez's Las Meninas, where what is seem is what the sitter himself would be seeing. What Ms. Mantell wants us to do is to react to what is happening as if we were Cromwell, the common man caught in the whirlwind of his time and reacting to it according to its own lights. Ms. Mantell's political point is, quite naturally, conservative, as she takes up the cudgels for a partisan of legality like Cromwell and makes no effort to conceal her ("his"?) loathing of an utopian and ideologue like Thomas More. Personally, my sympathies lie in the very opposite side; but I must acknowledge that she has done much to make a very unlikeable character - an upstart, a "jumped-up nobody" as the text goes, who successfully wormed his way unto power - at least, an intersting subject.
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