Hilary Mantel - Mantel Pieces (2nd Hand Hardback)
Synopsis
Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel.
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light.
In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next.
Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.
Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.
Details
- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Almost As New)
- Category : Non-Fiction - Non-Fiction - Uncategorised
- Published : 2020 (4th Estate - 1st Edition, 1st Printing)
- ISBN : 9780008429973
- SKU : B002731
- PPC : SP600gm
- RRP : £16.99 (Unclipped)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'This is a work that is brisk and breezy, and further enhanced by her capacity to examine our hearts, register our feelings, and bring up with tenderness the enduring question of our frail and vulnerable bodies' - Evening Standard.
'Worth buying for the title pun alone, Mantel Pieces brings together three decades' worth of Hilary Mantel's criticism in the London Review of Books . . . her uncomplicated prose style is no less authorative for being highly readable' - The Sunday Times.
'A volume of critical writing which often feels as if one is in the company of an exceptionally wise and generous friend, except very few of us have friends who can be as erudite on Madonna as they are on Anne Boylen' - Sara Collins.
'Bad girls. Ecstatic masochists. Housewives with hidden depths. Revolutionaries who rebelled all the way to the madhouse. These unruly women are her enduring obsession' - Helen Lewis, The New Statesman.
''Ferocious, witty and unapologetic' - Guardian.
The Author
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel, DBE, FRSL is an English writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories.
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