{"product_id":"9781250074720","title":"The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher : Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNamed a Best Book of the Year by\u003cbr\u003eAmazon,  Barnes \u0026amp; Noble,  \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003e The Independent \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003e Kirkus Reviews, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e The New York Times Book Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e The Telegraph \u003c\/i\u003e(London), \u003ci\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  In \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e,\u003c\/i\u003e Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display with stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes. Cutting to the core of human experience, Mantel brutally and acutely writes about marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking, \u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/i\u003e will brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An event with a capital 'E' . . . Breathtaking” —\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Scintillating . . . Like the Olympic gymnast who nails her landing every time.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today (four stars)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Mantel is at] the top of her game.” —\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Genius” —\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Mantel is] an international literary star.” —\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the best novelists writing today.” —\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mantel's] writing is cinematically exquisite… you can't help but get sucked in.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/i\u003e 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.” —\u003ci\u003eA.V. Club\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eUSA Today (4 stars)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Here is the Mantel of her earlier, darker kitchen-sink novels: harsh and comic, even derisive.” —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[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.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hilary Mantel has escaped from King Henry VIII's court.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mantel is not just a novelist, however, but a great political novelist at the top of her game.” —\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/i\u003e, untied from the historical record, she gives her characters freer rein to rattle their chains, and the results...are satisfyingly chilling.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Daily Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003ePittsburg Post-Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed New York Times Book Review Notable Books of the Year (2014), Long-listed Amazon.com Best Books of the Year (2014), Short-listed Audie Award Finalist (2015), Long-listed Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Guide (2014), Long-listed Washington Post Best Books of the Year (2014), Long-listed Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year (2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781250074720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40637561635022,"sku":"9781250074720","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_54c70c2e-0768-4af7-818c-45f8b396de8d.jpg?v=1639016625","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781250074720","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}