Hard Bread (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226069654)

The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are "spoken" in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life--her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese--much is invented. The result is a book by turns melancholy and acerbic, mournful and satiric, contemplative and combative.

Author: Peg Boyers
ISBN-10: 0226069656
ISBN-13: 9780226069654
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2002
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.02w x 0.34d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/2002 pg. 97