Images and Shadows: Part of a Life - Couverture souple

Origo, Iris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719556724 ISBN 13 : 9780719556722

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Antonio Origo, and her work with refugee children, feeding partisans and helping Allied prisoners-of-war during the German occupation.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Elegant and intelligent' -- Spectator

'A wonderful writer... Images and Shadows is as delicious and tear-inducing as Downton Abbey' -- New York Times

'An elegiac autobiography... illuminating' -- Telegraph

'Self-effacing and cultivated... gently percipient' -- Kirkus Reviews

'A true cosmopolite of vast energy and stunning intelligence' -- New York Times

'A masterly biographer here recounts her own story, and in this biography she is at her best' --Raymond Mortimer

'Origo was a remarkable writer, with a clear, engaging style, a mind steeped in history and scholarship, but alive always to the nuances and subtleties of human relationships. The hope is that [Pushkin's republication of her work] bring her a new generation of readers' --TLS

Biographie de l'auteur

Iris Origo (1902-1988) was a British-born biographer and writer. She lived in Italy and devoted much of her life to the improvement of the Tuscan estate at La Foce, which she purchased with her husband in the 1920s. During the Second World War, she sheltered refugee children and assisted many escaped Allied prisoners of war and partisans in defiance of Italy's fascist regime and Nazi occupation forces. Pushkin Press also publishes her bestselling diaries, War in Val d'Orcia, as well as two of her biographies, A Study in Solitude: the Life of Leopardi - Poet, Romantic and Radical and The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719556724
• ISBN 13: 9780719556722
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible