{"product_id":"a-memoir-of-my-former-self-a-life-in-writing-hardcover","title":"A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. \"Ink is a generative fluid,\" she explains. \"If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.\" \u003ci\u003eA Memoir of My Former Self \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the finest of this writing over four decades. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHer subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels--revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay \"Royal Bodies,\" on our endless fascination with the current royal family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, \u003ci\u003eA Memoir of My Former Self \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own luminous words, through \"messages from people I used to be.\" Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eWolf Hall \u003c\/i\u003eand its sequel, \u003ci\u003eBring Up the Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy, \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror \u0026amp; the Light\u003c\/i\u003e, debuted at #1 on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir \u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She died at age seventy in 2022.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2.4 x 8.6 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764418773280,"sku":"9781250342225","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b1e93d7573d9e9457fe2388fe27a3e03.webp?v=1780247733","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-memoir-of-my-former-self-a-life-in-writing-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}