Hilary Mantel

Learning to Talk (eBook, ePUB)

Short stories

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780007354887
• Artikelnr.: 39959693

Autorenporträt

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.

© John Haynes

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
King Billy Is a Gentleman
Destroyed
Curved Is the Line of Beauty
Learning to Talk
Third Floor Rising
The Clean Slate
Giving Up the Ghost

Rezensionen

'Mercilessly funny' Daily Telegraph

'Mantel writes with wit, compassion and great elegance.' Independent on Sunday

On 'Giving Up the Ghost':

'Like Lorna Sage's BAD BLOOD, GIVING UP THE GHOST is a story of childhood that is also a piece of history. Hilary Mantel's self-portrait is a masterpiece of wit, but it conjures up a time and a place and an epoch of female experience with razor-edged sobriety. That past, so thoroughly vanished, is made to live again here - disclosed, cannily and heartbreakingly, as once it too yielded up its author's mind.' Rachel Cusk

'What a remarkable writer she is. She is piercingly, even laceratingly observant, and every remembered detail has the sharpness of a good photograph. And yet for all its brilliance of detail and its black comedy the memoir is heavy with atmosphere. It's a very startling and daring memoir; the more I read it the more unsettling it becomes.' Helen Dunmore

'I was riveted. It's raw, it's distressing and it's full of piercing insights into a novelist's mind.' Margaret Forster