A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Mantel, Hilary

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250342225)

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A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Mantel, Hilary

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

$40.00
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Mantel, Hilary

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing

$40.00
Format: Hardcover
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THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS

In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. "Ink is a generative fluid," she explains. "If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all." A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.

Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels--revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay "Royal Bodies," on our endless fascination with the current royal family.

From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through "messages from people I used to be." Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.

Author: Hilary Mantel
ISBN-10: 1250342228
ISBN-13: 9781250342225
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Language: English
Published: 10/24/2023
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 2.40d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2023
Library Journal 09/01/2023 pg. 89
Shelf Awareness 10/28/2023
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Hilary Mantel was the author of the bestselling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving Up the Ghost, 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.

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