The dry heart
Ginzburg, Natalia2020
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'The Dry Heart' begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: 'I shot him between the eyes.' As the tale a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and revenge proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
Main title:
The dry heart / Natalia Ginzburg ; translated by Frances Frenaye.
Author:
Ginzburg, Natalia, authorFrenaye, Frances, 1908-1996, translator
Imprint:
London : Daunt Books, 2020.
Collation:
112 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Italian.This translation originally published: London: Hogarth Press, 1952.
ISBN:
9781911547600 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
853.914
Language:
EnglishItalian
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BRN:
1953810
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