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Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)

Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)
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Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)

por Mantel, Hilary

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At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the outer rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock and she is getting the cabbage on. 'Hello, Our Ilary,' she says; my family has named me aspirationally, but aspiration doesn't stretch to the 'H'.Giving Up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's wry, shocking and uniquely unusual five-part autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family.It opens in 1995 with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood. 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' begins in typical, gripping Mantel fashion: 'Two of my relatives have died by fire.' Set during the 1950s, it takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating with the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelit ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'The Secret Garden' Mantel moves to a haunted house and mysteriously gains a stepfather. When she is almost eleven, her family flee the gossips and the ghosts, and resolve to start a new life. 'Smile' is an account of teenage perplexity, in a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Convent school provides a certain sanctuary, with tacit assistance from the fearsome 'Top Nun.' In the final section, the author tells how, through 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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Phillybooks COM LLC US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
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Título
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)
Autor
Mantel, Hilary
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Novo
Quantidade Disponível
1
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Brochura
ISBN 10
0312423624
ISBN 13
9780312423629
Editorial
Picador
Local de publicação
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
August 12, 2004

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