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Article: Booker win boosts Tudor page-turner 'Wolf Hall'
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- October 13, 2009
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Last week, Hilary Mantel was a critically praised but commercially lukewarm novelist, whose Tudor corridors-of-power saga "Wolf Hall" was receiving rave reviews for its vivid depiction of 16th-century England.
Then she won the Booker Prize, the career-changing literary award that attracts attention from bookies and bookstores alike. Overnight, she shot up best-seller lists in Britain and the United States.
Now, says a bemused Mantel, "I'm chasing Sarah Palin on Amazon."
The $82,000 prize is a huge boost for a book that turns the historical figure of Thomas Cromwell _ Henry VIII's shadowy political fixer _ into a compelling, complex literary hero. ...