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Learning to Talk: Stories

Learning to Talk: Stories

Mantel, Hilary

Hardcover

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1250865360
ISBN13: 9781250865366
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: Jun 21 2022
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.35
Language: English

A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy.

Her short stories always recognize other potential realities...Even the most straightforward of Mantel's tales retain a faintly otherworldly air. --The Washington Post

In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, Learning to Talk is a collection of loosely autobiographical stories that locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Absorbing and evocative, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues. For the young narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In King Billy Is a Gentleman, the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. Curved Is the Line of Beauty is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In Third Floor Rising, she watches, amazed, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.

With a deceptively light touch, Mantel illuminates the poignant experiences of childhood that leave each of us forever changed.

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