“Wolf Hall” Wins Book Critics’ Prize
My favorite new novel in English over the past year was Colum McCann‘s “Let the Great World Spin,” but Hilary Mantel‘s “Wolf Hall” was a close second, so I can’t complain that the latter, last night, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. These novels sent me back to their authors’ earlier work; I especially recommend McCann’s “Dancer,” a fictionalized account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev; and Mantel’s “A Place of Greater Safety,” a big brick of a book about the French Revolution.
