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Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

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Availability:In StockContributor:Hilary MantelSeries:John MacRae BooksPublish date:2004-09-01Pages:223
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312423629ISBN-10:312423624UPC:9780312423629Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRK16XSTR

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied.

Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

"The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me."

In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children.

Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to "write herself into being"--one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius.

"Mesmerizing."--The New York Times
Language:EnglishPublisher:Picador USAISBN-13:9780312423629ISBN-10:312423624UPC:9780312423629Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Literary Figures, Women, Personal MemoirsSize:8.10 x 5.40 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCRK16XSTR
Hilary Mantel twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won critical acclaim around the globe. Mantel authored over a dozen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost
Publisher: Picador USA

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