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Giving up the ghost : a memoir

"In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life. At home, where fathers and stepfathers come and go at strange, overlapping intervals, the keeping of secrets becomes a way of life. Her late teens bring her to law school in London and then to Sheffield a lover and then a husband. She acquires a persistent pain-which also shifts and travels-that over the next decade will subject her to destructive drugs, patronizing psychiatry, and, finally, at age twenty-seven, to an ineffective and irrevocable surgery. There will be no children instead she has "a ghost of possibility, a paper baby, a person who slipped between the lines." Hormone treatments alter her body beyond recognition. And in the middle of it all, she begins one novel, and then another. Hilary Mantel was born to write about the paradoxes that shimmer at the edges of our perception. Dazzling, wry, and visceral, Giving Up the Ghost is a deeply compelling book that will bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius."--Pub. desc. (Henry Holt, American ed.).

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  • ""In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life. At home, where fathers and stepfathers come and go at strange, overlapping intervals, the keeping of secrets becomes a way of life. Her late teens bring her to law school in London and then to Sheffield a lover and then a husband. She acquires a persistent pain-which also shifts and travels-that over the next decade will subject her to destructive drugs, patronizing psychiatry, and, finally, at age twenty-seven, to an ineffective and irrevocable surgery. There will be no children instead she has "a ghost of possibility, a paper baby, a person who slipped between the lines." Hormone treatments alter her body beyond recognition. And in the middle of it all, she begins one novel, and then another. Hilary Mantel was born to write about the paradoxes that shimmer at the edges of our perception. Dazzling, wry, and visceral, Giving Up the Ghost is a deeply compelling book that will bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius."--Pub. desc. (Henry Holt, American ed.)."@en
  • "An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness which rendered her unable to have children, and literary career."
  • "An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness which rendered her unable to have children, and literary career."@en
  • "Wir alle haben Geister in unserem Leben. Es sind Facetten unserer Persönlichkeit, die wir nie realisieren konnten. Für jedes Ja stirbt ein Nein, für jeden Jungen, der geboren wird, entsteht der Geist eines Mädchens. Hilary Mantel hat sich ihren Geistern gestellt. In ihrer Autobiografie erzählt sie von ihrem Aufwachsen in einfachsten Verhältnissen und von den Zwängen, denen sich das eigensinnige und träumerische Mädchen unterwerfen muss. Und sie erzählt von ihrer Krankheit, die dazu führen wird, dass sich das Äußere der jungen Frau verändert und sie niemals Kinder gebären wird. Im Angesicht der Geister entscheidet sie sich für ein Geistesleben und wird zu einer der meistgefeierten Autorinnen und wichtigsten sozialkritischen Stimmen Englands. 'Von Geist und Geistern' erzählt das bewegte und bewegende Leben einer Frau, die ihre Schwächen immer wieder in Stärken verwandelt hat. Ein Zeugnis, das Mut macht und staunen lässt."
  • "'Giving Up the Ghost' is novelist Hilary Mantel's autobiography in fiction and non-fiction. It deals with childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family."@en
  • "From childhood daydreams to the reality of family secrets, her father's mysterious disappearance and an adulthood blighted by medical neglect, Hilary Mantel uncovers the losses that wrenched her from the patterns of the past and drove her to forge her own remarkable path."
  • "Autobiografie van de Britse schrijfster (1952- )."
  • ""In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel is a fierce, self-possessed child, schooling herself in "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay" and convinced that she will become a boy at age four. Catholic school comes as a rude distraction from her rich inner life. At home, where fathers and stepfathers come and go at strange, overlapping intervals, the keeping of secrets becomes a way of life. Her late teens bring her to law school in London and then to Sheffield a lover and then a husband. She acquires a persistent pain-which also shifts and travels-that over the next decade will subject her to destructive drugs, patronizing psychiatry, and, finally, at age twenty-seven, to an ineffective and irrevocable surgery. There will be no children instead she has "a ghost of possibility, a paper baby, a person who slipped between the lines." Hormone treatments alter her body beyond recognition. And in the middle of it all, she begins one novel, and then another. Hilary Mantel was born to write about the paradoxes that shimmer at the edges of our perception. Dazzling, wry, and visceral, Giving Up the Ghost is a deeply compelling book that will bring new converts to Mantel's dark genius."--pub. desc. (Henry Holt, American ed.)."@en

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  • "Romanhafte Biographien"
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  • "Herinneringen (vorm)"
  • "Biography"
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  • "Autobiographie"

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  • "Von Geist und Geistern"
  • "Giving up the ghost"
  • "Giving up the ghost : a memoir"@en
  • "Giving up the ghost : a memoir"
  • "Von Geist und Geistern Autobiografie"
  • "Giving up the ghost : (a memoir)"
  • "I fantasmi di una vita"
  • "I fantasmi di una vita"@it
  • "Giving up the ghost a memoir"@en
  • "Giving up the ghost a memoir"

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