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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 into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?
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The Dry heart, Natalia Ginzburg
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- The Dry heart
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Natalia Ginzburg
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN10
- 1911547607
- ISBN13
- 9781911547600
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Classics, Gifts for women, Southern Europe, Italy, Feminism, Novellas, Italian Literature
- First published
- 1947
- Original title
- È stato così
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- 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?