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Giving up the Ghost

- A Memoir
Af: Hilary Mantel Engelsk Paperback

Giving up the Ghost

- A Memoir
Af: Hilary Mantel Engelsk Paperback
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‘Like Lorna Sage''s Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSK‘Giving up the Ghost’ is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel''s uniquely unusual five-part autobiography.Opening in 1995 with ''A Second Home'', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In ''Now Geoffrey Don''t Torment Her'' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother''s ''churching''. In ''Smile'', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir''s conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.
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‘Like Lorna Sage''s Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSK‘Giving up the Ghost’ is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel''s uniquely unusual five-part autobiography.Opening in 1995 with ''A Second Home'', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In ''Now Geoffrey Don''t Torment Her'' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother''s ''churching''. In ''Smile'', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir''s conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 272
ISBN-13: 9780007142729
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0007142722
Udg. Dato: 1 jun 2004
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 128mm
Højde: 198mm
Forlag: HarperCollins Publishers
Oplagsdato: 1 jun 2004
Forfatter(e): Hilary Mantel
Forfatter(e) Hilary Mantel


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ISBN-13 9780007142729


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 272


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 128mm


Højde 198mm


Udg. Dato 1 jun 2004


Oplagsdato 1 jun 2004


Forlag HarperCollins Publishers

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