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Giving Up the Ghost
The story of Hilary Mantel becoming the indelible literary presence she now forever will be, Giving up the Ghost is her own exploration of her childhood and growth in the same exacting voice that she applies to her fiction. It's an ode to her creative genius, in case any further proof was needed.
Selected by The New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years
The 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.
“The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always tryi...
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