9780312423629-0312423624-Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)

ISBN-13: 9780312423629
ISBN-10: 0312423624
Edition: First Edition
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback 240 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780312423629
ISBN-10: 0312423624
Edition: First Edition
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Picador
Format: Paperback 240 pages

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Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books) (ISBN-13: 9780312423629 and ISBN-10: 0312423624), written by authors Hilary Mantel, was published by Picador in 2004. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Authors (Arts & Literature, Women, Specific Groups) books. You can easily purchase or rent Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Authors books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.13.

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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

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