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The Dry Heart
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ISBN10: 0811228789
ISBN13: 9780811228787
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jun 25 2019
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811228787
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jun 25 2019
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
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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