“Bring Up the Bodies” is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do. Mantel makes bold not with form but with the very material that brings most readers to novels in the first place: our imaginative identification with fictional characters.
“Bring Up the Bodies” is a high-wire act, a feat of novelistic derring-do. Mantel makes bold not with form but with the very material that brings most readers to novels in the first place: our imaginative identification with fictional characters.