{"product_id":"memoir-of-my-former-self-hardcover","title":"Memoir of My Former Self (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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.\" A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mantel, Hilary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52337283563794,"sku":"9781443472579","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/9238\/5846\/files\/25807003482701_31dc50d8-91e3-42e6-bd0a-c84091d52a05.jpg?v=1780439400","url":"https:\/\/hbswarehousesale.com\/products\/memoir-of-my-former-self-hardcover","provider":"Harvard Book Store Warehouse Sale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}