Wolf Hall - Couverture souple

Mantel, Hilary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312429983 ISBN 13 : 9780312429980

Editeur : Picador USA, 2010

Synopsis

Physical description: xxiii, 653 p. : ill., port. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Historical fiction. Cromwell, Earl of Essex Thomas. Genre: Fiction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

Revue de presse :

A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can't think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world. --Diana Athill

Magestically conjures up an England in the throes of epic change ... a Great British Novel. --The Observer

A magnificent achievement: the scale of its vision and the fine stitching of its detail; the teeming canvas of characters; the style with its clipped but powerful immediacy; the wit, the poetry and the nuance. --Sarah Dunant

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Picador USA
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312429983
• ISBN 13: 9780312429980
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 604