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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Pages
- 242
- Publication Date
- 2014-09-30
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 9781627792103
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1627792104
ISBN-13
9781627792103
eBay Product ID (ePID)
201567481
Product Key Features
Book Title
Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2014
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author), Literary
Genre
Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2014-015900
Reviews
A New Yorker "Books to Watch Out For" September selection People "Best Books of the Fall" pick One of USA Today's "30 Cool Books for Fall" Selected for Vogue 's "Fall Books Guide: 10 Literary Things We're Looking Forward To" Amazon Big Fall Book pick One of Flavorwire 's "Must Read Books for the Fall" "Top 10 Literary Fiction" and "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2014" by Publisher's Weekly "Mantel's stories have their own special tang and quidditas. Even as one appreciates the suave authorial style-light pared-down, technically scintillating, like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time-one has the sense too that mantel is working with some fairly edgy and complex private material in these contemporary fables…. One gets the feeling she wants both to frighten us (at times more than a little) and make us laugh. She's like an old-fashioned spirit medium of sorts: a brusque, mischievous, Madame Arcati-like purveyor of uncanny moments. She transports us somewhere else . And she seems to be having great fun with it too…. Mantel is such a funny and intelligent and generously untethered writer that part of what one's praise must mean is that if you're intelligent and quirky enough to take the book up at all…she's got quirks enough of her own to match you, if not raise you 10." - New York Times Book Review "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat…. Some of the stories are so brief and twisted…they have a hint of the cruelty of Roald Dahl's short stories (the ones that were definitely for grown-ups)…. Mantel's narrators never tell everything they know, and that's why they're worth listening to, carefully." -USA Today "[Mantel] evokes a shadowy region where boundaries blur and what might have happened has equal weight with what actually occurred…. Despite the plethora of sharply observed social detail, her short stories always recognize other potential realities…. Even the most straightforward of Mantel's tales retain a faintly otherworldly air." -Washington Post "[A] barnburner of a title story…It's not the plot that matters as much as the superb little touches with which Ms. Mantel punctuates it." - New York Times "Hilary Mantel has escaped from King Henry VIII's court." - The Wall Street Journal "Mantel is not just a novelist, however, but a great political novelist at the top of her game." -Salon "Genius." -The Seattle Times "Here are stories in which horror shudders between the high gothic of Grimm and the menacing quotidian. Oppression comes from air conditioners that 'labor and hack' and from 'the smell of drains.' Cruelty is made manifest by a wayward young girl who finds an even more outcast target in the form of a severely deformed child…. These are Ms. Mantel's signature strokes freaks made human and humans made freakish, and always with the expiation of a dark and judgmental humor." -Pittsburg Post-Gazette "Best known for historical novels such as Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring up the Bodies (2012), Mantel proves herself a skilled practitioner of short fiction as well…. 'What would Anita Brookner do?' asks one of Mantel's protagonists. The answer, we'd like to think, is this: She'd read Mantel's latest, and she'd delight in it." -Kirkus, Mantel's stories have their own special tang and quidditas. Even as one appreciates the suave authorial style--light pared-down, technically scintillating, like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time|9781627792103|, The stories are artfully constructed and share a muted gothic tone marked by the same 'heightened, crawling quality' that one of Mantel's narrators, a writer, finds at a moldering hotel., Best known for historical novels such as Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring up the Bodies (2012), Mantel proves herself a skilled practitioner of short fiction as well.... 'What would Anita Brookner do?' asks one of Mantel's protagonists. The answer, we'd like to think, is this: She'd read Mantel's latest, and she'd delight in it., The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher delivers on its promises: the promise built by Mantel's reputation as one of the unquestionably great contemporary writers, the promise made by its shocking title, and the promise inherent in the genre of short stories...Mantel pokes and prods and scratches at our tiny collective wounds, opening them into something much bigger. Readers may find the stories uncomfortable, but also hard to put down., The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , untied from the historical record, she gives her characters freer rein to rattle their chains, and the results...are satisfyingly chilling., Mantel's stories have their own special tang and quidditas. Even as one appreciates the suave authorial style--light pared-down, technically scintillating, like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time--one has the sense too that Mantel is working with some fairly edgy and complex private material in these contemporary fables.... One gets the feeling she wants both to frighten us (at times more than a little) and make us laugh. She's like an old-fashioned spirit -medium of sorts: a brusque, mischievous, Madame Arcati-like purveyor of uncanny moments. She transports us somewhere else. And she seems to be having great fun with it too.... Mantel is such a funny and intelligent and generously untethered writer that part of what one's praise must mean is that if you're intelligent and quirky enough to take the book up at all...she's got quirks enough of her own to match you, if not raise you 10., With ten stories unique, strange and tantalizing, Mantel shares her views poetically, harshly and with great love. A have to read., Mantel's stories have their own special tang and quidditas. Even as one appreciates the suave authorial style-light pared-down, technically scintillating, like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time-one has the sense too that Mantel is working with some fairly edgy and complex private material in these contemporary fables.... One gets the feeling she wants both to frighten us (at times more than a little) and make us laugh. She's like an old-fashioned spirit -medium of sorts: a brusque, mischievous, Madame Arcati-like purveyor of uncanny moments. She transports us somewhere else. And she seems to be having great fun with it too.... Mantel is such a funny and intelligent and generously untethered writer that part of what one's praise must mean is that if you're intelligent and quirky enough to take the book up at all...she's got quirks enough of her own to match you, if not raise you 10., [A] barnburner of a title story...It's not the plot that matters as much as the superb little touches with which Ms. Mantel punctuates it., A New Yorker "Books to Watch Out For" September selection One of USA Today's "30 Cool Books for Fall" Selected for Vogue's "Fall Books Guide: 10 Literary Things We're Looking Forward To" Amazon Big Fall Book pick One of Flavorwire's "Must Read Books for the Fall" "Top 10 Literary Fiction" and "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2014" by Publisher's Weekly, A New Yorker "Books to Watch Out For" September selection People "Best Books of the Fall" pick One of USA Today's "30 Cool Books for Fall" Selected for Vogue 's "Fall Books Guide: 10 Literary Things We're Looking Forward To" Amazon Big Fall Book pick One of Flavorwire 's "Must Read Books for the Fall" "Top 10 Literary Fiction" and "The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2014" by Publisher's Weekly "Mantel's stories have their own special tang and quidditas. Even as one appreciates the suave authorial style-light pared-down, technically scintillating, like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time-one has the sense too that mantel is working with some fairly edgy and complex private material in these contemporary fables…. One gets the feeling she wants both to frighten us (at times more than a little) and make us laugh. She's like an old-fashioned spirit medium of sorts: a brusque, mischievous, Madame Arcati-like purveyor of uncanny moments. She transports us somewhere else . And she seems to be having great fun with it too…. Mantel is such a funny and intelligent and generously untethered writer that part of what one's praise must mean is that if you're intelligent and quirky enough to take the book up at all…she's got quirks enough of her own to match you, if not raise you 10." - New York Times Book Review "Hilary Mantel has escaped from King Henry VIII's court." - The Wall Street Journal "[A] barnburner of a title story…It's not the plot that matters as much as the superb little touches with which Ms. Mantel punctuates it." - New York Times, [Mantel] evokes a shadowy region where boundaries blur and what might have happened has equal weight with what actually occurred.... Despite the plethora of sharply observed social detail, her short stories always recognize other potential realities.... Even the most straightforward of Mantel's tales retain a faintly otherworldly air., The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher delivers on its promises: the promise built by Mantel's reputation as one of the unquestionably great contemporary writers, the promise made by its shocking title, and the promise inherent in the genre of short stories...Mantel pokes and prods and scratches at our tiny collective wounds, opening them into something much bigger. Readers may find the stories uncomfortable, but also hard to put down., A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a capital 'E'.... Heads always tend to roll - figuratively and otherwise - in Mantel's writing. Hers is a brusque and brutal world leavened with humor - humor that's available in one shade only: black.... makes a permanent dent in a reader's consciousness because of Mantel's striking language and plots twists, as well as the Twilight Zone-type mood she summons up...breathtaking., A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat.... Some of the stories are so brief and twisted...they have a hint of the cruelty of Roald Dahl's short stories (the ones that were definitely for grown-ups).... Mantel's narrators never tell everything they know, and that's why they're worth listening to, carefully., The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , untied from the historical record, she gives her characters freer rein to rattle their chains, and the results...are satisfyingly chilling., Here are stories in which horror shudders between the high gothic of Grimm and the menacing quotidian. Oppression comes from air conditioners that 'labor and hack' and from 'the smell of drains.' Cruelty is made manifest by a wayward young girl who finds an even more outcast target in the form of a severely deformed child.... These are Ms. Mantel's signature strokes - freaks made human and humans made freakish, and always with the expiation of a dark and judgmental humor., A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a capital 'E'.... Heads always tend to roll -- figuratively and otherwise -- in Mantel's writing. Hers is a brusque and brutal world leavened with humor|9781627792103|
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
823/.914
Table Of Content
SORRY TO DISTURB 1 COMMA 37 THE LONG QT 61 WINTER BREAK 71 HARLEY STREET 85 OFFENSES AGAINST THE PERSON 113 HOW SHALL I KNOW YOU? 131 THE HEART FAILS WITHOUT WARNING 167 TERMINUS 191 THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER 203 CREDITS 243
Synopsis
The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , that has been called "scintillating" ( New York Times Books Review ), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" ( The Chicago Tribune ) and "otherworldly" ( Washington Post ). "A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a 'capital 'E.'"-NPR "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat."- USA Today (4 stars) " Mantel is at] the top of her game."- Salon "Genius."- The Seattle Times One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way. Cutting to the core of human experience, Mantel brutally and acutely writes about marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher displays a magnificent writer at the peak of her powers., The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies , that has been called "scintillating" ( New York Times Books Review ), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" ( The Chicago Tribune ) and "otherworldly" ( Washington Post ). "A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a 'capital 'E.'"-NPR "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat."- USA Today (4 stars) "[Mantel is at] the top of her game."- Salon "Genius."- The Seattle Times One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher , Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way. Cutting to the core of human experience, Mantel brutally and acutely writes about marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher displays a magnificent writer at the peak of her powers.
LC Classification Number
PR6063.A438A6 2014
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