The Dry Heart
  • Published:
    Jun-2019
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    96
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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?
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EDITIONS
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    • First Edition
    • Jun-2019
    • New Directions
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0811228789
    • ISBN13: 9780811228787
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    • May-2021
    • Daunt Books
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1911547607
    • ISBN13: 9781911547600
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    • Jun-2019
    • New Directions Publishing Corporation
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0811228797
    • ISBN13: 9780811228794
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    • Jun-2019
    • New Directions
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • May-2021
    • Daunt Books
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1911547615
    • ISBN13: 9781911547617



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