“A Memoir of My Former Self” is a bravura collection of the late Booker Prize winner’s articles, essays and reviews.
In 2007, Hilary Mantel wrote an article for the Guardian which took its lead from a comment made by fellow English writer Martin Amis about different modes and means of writing. Amis claimed that his journalism and criticism were the work of his left hand while his fiction flowed from his right. For Mantel, the reverse was the case. “Thinking back over my career as a columnist, I know that my pieces came from my right hand — trained, clear, biddable and capable of keeping count,” she declared.
That wrong hand produced extraordinary results, especially in Mantel’s later years. Her best-selling, prize-garlanded Wolf Hall trilogy about the rise and fall of Henry VIII’s arch-fixer and master manipulator Thomas Cromwell — “the devil in guise of a knave” — was a magisterial achievement and represented the capstone to a remarkable career.” gathers together the best of it.
The second section consists of film reviews that Mantel wrote for the Spectator in the late 1980s. All bases are covered, from highbrow art house to big-budget blockbusters.
Part three sees Mantel on firmer ground with a selection of longer, meatier essays from the New York Review of Books. She turns her critical gaze on Rebecca West’s letters, Annie Proulx’s fiction, V.S. Naipaul’s travel writing and two biographies of her beloved Jane Austen.
Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic.We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
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