The Dry Heart
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 2019
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Translation of: È stato così
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9780811228787
Copyright date: 1952
Subjects: Marriage, fiction; Fiction, general
Other titles: Dry Heart
First sentence: "Tell me the truth," I said.
Description: "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.' Everything in between is a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness, and as the tale proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. In this powerful novella, Natalia Ginzburg's writing is white-hot, fueled by rage, stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality; she transforms an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that might pose the question: Why don't more wives kill their husbands?"--