Giving up the Ghost (eBook, ePUB)
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | HarperCollins Publishers (Mantel, Hilary) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
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...
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