Book Overview
The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life--her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese--much is invented. The result is a book by turns melancholy and acerbic, mournful and satiric, contemplative and combative.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226069656
ISBN13:9780226069654
Release Date:April 2002
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:112 Pages
Weight:6.15 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 6.0" x 8.6"
Customer Reviews
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A wonderful book of poetry....
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This book is important and beautiful. Peg Boyers has a way of getting you invovled in the moment in a new world where everything is changed but you still feel comfortable. Meeting new people through her poems she soon makes them familiar to you but it is a show of her mastery of the craft that makes the poems so alive. This is a fine, elegant wonderful book. Buy one for you and another for a friend. You will enjoy each page and every poem!
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