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ISBN-10: 0811228789
ISBN-13: 9780811228787
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/25/2019
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.10" W, 0.30" H

The Dry Heart

Translator: Frances Frenaye

Paperback

Price: $12.95

Overview

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 bitterness–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?

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I'm utterly entranced by Ginzburg's style–her mysterious directness, her salutary ability to lay things bare that never feels contrived or cold, only necessary, honest, clear.–Maggie Nelson
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Details

ISBN-10: 0811228789
ISBN-13: 9780811228787
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publish Date: 06/25/2019
Dimensions: 7.80" L, 5.10" W, 0.30" H
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