TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mantel, Hilary,
TI  - Giving up the ghost: (a memoir) 
SN  - 805074724
AV  - PR 6063.A438 .G449 2003
PY  - 2003///
CY  - New York
PB  - Holt
KW  - Chronic pain
KW  - Novelists, English
KW  - Great Britain
N1  - A John Macrae book; Originally published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2003 by Fourth Estate, London--T.p. verso
N2  - Hilary Mantel chronicles her struggles with persistent pain, destructive drugs, patronizing psychiatry, and an ineffective and irrevocable surgery, and explains how those experiences influenced her writing
ER  -