{"product_id":"9780312423629","title":"Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Hilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Mesmerizing.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dazzlingly written...a highly unorthodox account of what is essentially unsayable about the inward uncharted life.” —Joyce Carol Oates, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost \u003c\/i\u003ecombines 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Diaries \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Unless\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eBeloved Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780312423629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40656565797070,"sku":"9780312423629","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_a677db80-396f-45e9-830a-85c981fd7ef0.jpg?v=1643283126","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780312423629","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}