Review the mirror and the light6/29/2023 For this is a masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches, changing as its readers change, going forward with us into the future. Endings, insists Cromwell, are opportunities. The narrative voice rides at times like a spirit or angel on thermals of vitality, catching the turning seasons, the rhythms of work and dreams, cities and kitchens and heartbeats. Not since Bleak House has the present tense performed such magic. is still exuberantly rethinking what novels can do. But it also continues, deepens, and revises its forebears, negotiating with its past as does Cromwell with his. The Mirror & the Light is generously self-sufficient – to read this alone would hardly be skimping: it is four or five books in itself. orking with and against our foreknowledge, Mantel keeps us on the brink, each day to be invented. The portrait of Thomas Cromwell.now concludes with a novel of epic proportions, every bit as thrilling, propulsive, darkly comic and stupendously intelligent as its predecessors.
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