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.
具体描述
读后感
评分
评分
评分
评分
用户评价
相关图书
本站所有内容均为互联网搜索引擎提供的公开搜索信息，本站不存储任何数据与内容，任何内容与数据均与本站无关，如有需要请联系相关搜索引擎包括但不限于百度，google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 book.wenda123.org All Rights Reserved. 图书目录大全 版权所有