{"product_id":"giving-up-the-ghost-a-memoir-9780312423629","title":"Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir","description":"\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 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-517346\"\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312423629\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0312423624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO022000\"\u003eWomen\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHilary Mantel is the bestselling author of many novels including \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. \u003ci\u003eBring Up the Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, Book Two of the Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eA Change of Climate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Place of Greater Safety\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEight Months on Ghazzah Street\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Experiment in Love\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Giant, O'Brien\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFludd\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeyond Black\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvery Day Is Mother's Day\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVacant Possession\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written a memoir, \u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in England with her husband.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42693636161773,"sku":"9780312423629","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d79211c0-217f-4ea4-92b1-b647ba9885b8.jpg?v=1649860714","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/giving-up-the-ghost-a-memoir-9780312423629","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}