A Place To Live
And Other Selected Essays
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Arguably one of Italy’s greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer’s writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg’s books written over the course of Ginzburg’s lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583225707 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1583225706 |
| Author: | Natalia Ginzburg |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 275g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 140mm |
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“Natalia Ginzburg is a brilliant eccentric…” - Times Literary Supplement “Brilliant… [A] small, entrancing classic.” - The Observer “What Schwartz ends up setting up before us is fiction’s most beautiful effect…” - The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Natalia Ginzburg
NATALIA GINZBURG (1916-91) is recognized as one of the foremost Italian writers of the twentieth century, and one of the most eloquent and incisive commentators on postwar Italy. Her works include novels, stories, essays, plays, and a biography of Alessandro Manzoni.LYNNE SHARON SCHWARTZ is the author of fourteen works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as the widely acclaimed memoir, Ruined by Reading. Her first novel, Rough Strife (1981), was shortlisted for a National Book Award and a PEN/Hemingway First Novel Award, and her Leaving Brooklyn (1989) was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. She won the 1991 PEN Renato Pogglioli Award for her translation from the Italian of Smoke Over Birkenau, by Liana Millu. Schwartz is a native and current New Yorker.
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