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Learning to Talk: Short Stories (Paperback)

by Hilary Mantel (Author)
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  • Paperback: 159 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (7 Jul 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007166443
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007166442
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 172,433 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Mercilessly funny' Daily Telegraph 'Mantel writes with wit, compassion and great elegance.' Independent on Sunday On 'Giving Up the Ghost': 'Like Lorna Sage's BAD BLOOD, GIVING UP THE GHOST is a story of childhood that is also a piece of history. Hilary Mantel's self-portrait is a masterpiece of wit, but it conjures up a time and a place and an epoch of female experience with razor-edged sobriety. That past, so thoroughly vanished, is made to live again here -- disclosed, cannily and heartbreakingly, as once it too yielded up its author's mind.' Rachel Cusk 'What a remarkable writer she is. She is piercingly, even laceratingly observant, and every remembered detail has the sharpness of a good photograph. And yet for all its brilliance of detail and its black comedy the memoir is heavy with atmophere. It's a very startling and daring memoir; the more I read it the more unsettling it becomes.' Helen Dunmore 'I was riveted. It's raw, it's distressing and it's full of piercing insights into a novelist's mind.' Margaret Forster ON HILARY MANTEL: 'She writes like an angel ! and it is this angelic prose which turns the reader dizzy with pleasure.' David Robson, Sunday Telegraph 'Mantel can out-write most writers of her generation, male and female.' Maggie Gee, Sunday Times 'Hilary Mantel is a wonderfully unsurprised dissector of human motivation.' Helen Dunmore, Observer 'Mantel writes prose of imperturbable aplomb, crisp with irony and highlighted with deftly placed, elegantly surprising images ! she has a penchant for caustic, spiky heroines and a sardonic ear for dialogue.' Peter Kemp, Sunday Times 'Hilary Mantel is a novelist of remarkable diversity. She writes about curiosity, companionship, art, love, death and eternity. She writes with wit, compassion and great elegance.' Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday


Sue Gaisford, Independent on Sunday

'Hilary Mantel writes with wit, compassion and great elegance.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars an ordinary childhood, 28 Aug 2003
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I've been reading this books slowly, story by story, allowing each to reverberate in my mind. Parts, like the elocution lessons and the sense of being different, awake complex memories which in turn interact with the complex layering of the stories themselves.
I don't usually like short stories. Often I dismiss them after reading and turn to something weightier. These are insistent and I won't forget.
These stories put the ordinary experience of being an intelligent, working class child at their centre. (Many people are intelligent; most are consigned to the margins of British society.)
Hilary Mantel is not just intelligent and acutely observant; she may also be the best writer of English prose alive today.
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