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Martha's rating my rating review Maybe one of every 30 books I read has what publishers refer to as "a great voice." I've just added Wolf Hall to that category. Whi...more Maybe one of every 30 books I read has what publishers refer to as "a great voice." I've just added Wolf Hall to that category. While some authors try too hard to sound unique, the result overwhelming, that's not true of Hilary Mantel's fictionalized story of the real Thomas Cromwell, an English statesman who helped engineer the English church's break with the Roman Catholic church in 1534, which allowed King Henry VIII to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine, so he could marry Anne Boleyn. The book begins in Putney when Thomas is a boy and taking yet another beating by his father: ___ "So now get up." Felled, dazed, silent, he has fallen; knocked full length on the cobbles of the yard. His head turns sideways; his eyes are turned toward the gate, as if someone might arrive to help him out. One blow, properly placed, could kill him now. ___ Fearing he may not live much longer if he sticks around, young Thomas leaves home to make his way in the world and the story picks up again when Thomas is in his forties. He's a lawyer and a close confidante to Cardinal Wolsey, a relationship that brings Thomas to the attention of Henry at one of the most famous and fascinating times in English history. Mantel tells the story of Cromwell's rise to become Henry's right-hand man in a tone that's simple and delightedly void of explanation and interpretation. The effect is twofold. The first is the achievement of an intense realism. The narrator never pulls readers aside to say "this is what ___ means and that item is used for ___ ," a technique many of authors use and that many readers appreciate for help in understanding the story. The disadvantage, however, is that such explanations often pull readers out of the narrative by pointing out they're not of that time period. By treating us as though we are of Thomas Cromwell's era, however, Mantel allows readers to truly sink into his time and world, one so real I felt I was within arm's reach of Thomas, whether in his study at Austin Friars or while walking the stone corridors of Henry's palace. The second effect of being dropped into a story told without footnotes within the prose is that of feeling trusted by the author to glean what's going via the clues we're given, which is marvelously challenging for people who like to puzzle over what they're reading, especially when they feel they're being given the components necessary to put the picture together. If I have any criticism of Wolf Hall is that there's a consistent tendency toward pronoun confusion: there are countless scenes in which more than one man is present, so that figuring out who Mantel means by "he" can be challenging. Martha Engber THE WIND THIEF GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS FROM THE GROUND UP(less)
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