Images and Shadows Part of a Life by Iris Origo & Afterword by Katia Lysy
Brand: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Product Description
An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val dOrcia and now turns inward to describe her own family the work of writing and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows Iris Origos autobiographical account of her early life is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val dOrcia. Origos father came from an old and moneyed American family her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer and Iris grew up in the most privileged of circumstances. Her father died of tuberculosis when he was only thirty and her mother moved to Fiesole Italy where she and Iris developed a close friendship with the great connoisseur and art historian Bernard Berenson. Later Origo and her Italian husband transformed a desolate and deforested Tuscan property into a flourishing estate and it was there that she discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows Origo paints portraits of her shy loving father and her headstrong mother and describes beloved places the books that formed her sensibility and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching. show more
Condition : New
Author : Iris Origo Afterword By Katia Lysy
Weight : 451
Publisher : The New York Review Of Books Inc
Language : English
EAN : 9781681373652
ISBN10 : 1681373653
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20200121
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 127 X 203 X 21mm