The Dry Heart

By Natalia Ginzburg

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811228789
• ISBN13: 9780811228787
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.1" x 7.8"