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A Memoir of My Former Self
- A Life in Writing
- ナレーター： Anne Enright, Aurora Dawson-Hunte, Ben Miles, Bill Hamilton, Jane Wymark, Lydia Leonard, Nicholas Pearson, Sarah Waters
- 再生時間： 16 時間 21 分
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A Memoir of My Former Self
批評家のレビュー
"This collection of 70 of Mantel's writings is divided into five parts, each with a reflective, animating quality. Lydia Leonard narrates the first part, her tone intimate and conversational whether she's describing Mantel's theft of a book in her youth, her life in Saudi Arabia, the grace of Marie Antoinette, or Princess Diana's complicated image. Jane Wymark delivers the fourth part, five lectures that show Mantel's passion for and understanding of writing. Six more actors and writers deliver the breadth and depth of brisk and witty movie reviews, along with in-depth essays about Jane Austen, Annie Proulx, and others. Multiple narrators finish with 20 more thought-provoking pieces. Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel." (AudioFile)
あらすじ・解説
Long-listed, Vogue Magazine Best Books of the Year 2023
"Throughout, short sentences give pause, descriptions invite, and all make listeners appreciate and miss the genius of the late Mantel."—AudioFile
THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS
In 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.
Her 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.
From 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 listening from one of our greatest writers.
A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt & Company.