A collegue suggested I add posts about what I am reading. Flattered by such interest, I will add occasional entries about interesting books.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
If the Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, were a video, its style would be that of a police TV drama. Scenes are short, visual and close-up. Background information is delivered in flash-backs. Tension and terror make the heart beat faster. The plot unwinds from the justified paranoia of the characters.
Wolf Hall is set in what we thought was the familiar time of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Author Hilary Mantel overturns our complaisant vision gained from the many “costume dramas” we have seen. Hers is a gritty, mean, manipulative world where loyalty is paramount and nobody can be trusted.
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
If the Booker prize-winning novel, Wolf Hall, were a video, its style would be that of a police TV drama. Scenes are short, visual and close-up. Background information is delivered in flash-backs. Tension and terror make the heart beat faster. The plot unwinds from the justified paranoia of the characters.
Wolf Hall is set in what we thought was the familiar time of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Author Hilary Mantel overturns our complaisant vision gained from the many “costume dramas” we have seen. Hers is a gritty, mean, manipulative world where loyalty is paramount and nobody can be trusted.
Available at Calgary Public Library.
Thanks Judith!
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