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- “Bring Up the Bodies” (the title refers to the four men executed for supposedly sleeping with Anne) isn’t nostalgic, exactly, but it’s astringent and purifying, stripping away the cobwebs and varnish of history, the antique formulations and brocaded sentimentality of costume-drama novels, so that the English past comes to seem like something vivid, strange and brand new.
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May 25, 2012 · “Bring Up the Bodies” is in many ways a study of power and influence, how to acquire it and how to use it, and makes you realize that serving at court under a willful monarch is not so very...
Jan 1, 2012 · 4.29. 95,949 ratings9,053 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2012) Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0805090037 (ISBN13: 9780805090031) Though he battled for years to marry her, Henry VIII has become disenchanted with the audacious Anne Boleyn.
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Oct 6, 2021 · Bring Up the Bodies is the second novel in Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Series. It was awarded the Booker Prize in 2012, as had its predecessor, Wolf Hall , in 2009, making Mantel one of only a handful of writers to have won the prestigious prize twice.
May 22, 2012 · bookshelf. shop now. Hannah’s new novel is an homage to the extraordinary courage and endurance of Frenchwomen during World War II. In 1995, an elderly unnamed widow is moving into an Oregon nursing home on the urging of her controlling son, Julien, a surgeon.
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Jun 21, 2012 · In Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to Wolf Hall (2009), it is she, as a woman close to the queen, who sets ticking the mechanism of Anne Boleyn’s downfall. In the following passage she talks with Thomas Cromwell.
May 10, 2012 · Bring Up The Bodies review - Hilary Mantel. By Rob Brunner. Published on May 10, 2012 04:00AM EDT. Stories don’t get much more familiar than the tale of Henry Tudor and Anne Boleyn. The king...
Bring Up the Bodies is an historical novel by Hilary Mantel, sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It won the 2012 Booker Prize and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year.
