The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg Paperback Book

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Rent The Dry Heart

Author: Natalia Ginzburg

Format: Quality Paperback

Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

Published: Jun 2019

Genre: Fiction - Family Life - Marriage & Divorce

Retail Price: $12.95

Pages: 96

Synopsis

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage

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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