{"product_id":"giving-up-the-ghost-a-memoir-paperback","title":"Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world's most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. \u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.\"\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeset 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Mesmerizing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003eand its sequel, \u003ci\u003eBring Up the Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror \u0026amp; the Light\u003c\/i\u003e, debuted at #1 on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 223\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52556449644837,"sku":"9780312423629","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/gvSs0-gyvR9780312423629.webp?v=1781372989","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/giving-up-the-ghost-a-memoir-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}