The Dry Heart
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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 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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811228789
ISBN13:9780811228787
Release Date:June 2019
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:96 Pages
Weight:0.27 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"
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