Author | : Natalia Ginzburg |
File Size | : 40,7 Mb |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 25 June 2019 |
ISBN | : 9780811228794 |
Pages | : 94 pages |
The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg Book PDF Summary
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?