Giving Up the Ghost - (John MacRae Books) by Hilary Mantel (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. <i>Giving Up the Ghost</i>, 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.</b> <p/><b>Selected by the <i>New York Times</i> as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years</b> <p/><i>"The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me."</i> <p/>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. <p/>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. <p/><b>"Mesmerizing."--<i>The New York Times</i></b></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Dazzlingly written...a highly unorthodox account of what is essentially unsayable about the inward uncharted life." --Joyce Carol Oates, <i>The New York Review of Books</i> <p/>"The matter is bitter, but Mantel's angular wit is as unquenchable as her anger; the reading experience is reliably exhilarating because of the sheer excellence of the writing." --<i>New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"Blazing insights [and] poetic discourses that rattle the soul...Mantel doesn't simply hit close to home, she knocks at our closets and opens our doors." --<i>The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"Mantel's talents are stronger than her misfortunes...[this book comes] from the mind of a fine author, whose body has imposed its own terrible penances." --<i>The Washington Post<br></i><br>"<i>Giving Up the Ghost </i>combines the urgency and observation that steer a memoir into the heart of a reader's own experience. I have been touched and also enthralled by this fine book." --Carol Shields, author of <i>The Stone Diaries </i>and<i> Unless</i> <p/>"A stunning evocation of an ill-fitting childhood and a womanhood blighted by medical ineptitude. Hilary Mantel's frank and beautiful memoir is impossible to put down and impossible to forget." --Clare Boylan, author of <i>Beloved Stranger</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including <i>Wolf Hall</i>, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of <i>A Change of Climate</i>, <i>A Place of Greater Safety</i>, <i>Eight Months on Ghazzah Street</i>, <i>An Experiment in Love</i>, <i>The Giant, O'Brien</i>, <i>Fludd</i>, <i>Beyond Black</i>, <i>Every Day Is Mother's Day</i>, and <i>Vacant Possession</i>. She has also written a memoir, <i>Giving Up the Ghost</i>. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in <i>The New York Times</i>, <i>The New York Review of Books</i>, and the <i>London Review of Books</i>. She lives in England with her husband.</p>
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