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Images and Shadows

Images and Shadows
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Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 393
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ISBN-10 : 9781681373652
ISBN-13 : 1681373653
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Book Synopsis Images and Shadows by : Iris Origo

Download or read book Images and Shadows written by Iris Origo and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows, Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia. Origo’s 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.


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Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Iris Origo
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia, and now turns inward to describe her own fami
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Pages: 388
Authors: Caroline Moorehead
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher

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Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Iris Origo
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-07 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

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This recently discovered “trenchant, intelligent” follow-up to the British expatriate’s classic memoir, War in Val d’Orcia, chronicles life in Italy in
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Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Iris Origo
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Allison & Busby

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It is quite impossible to attach importance to material possessions now. All that one still clings to is a few vital affections' Iris Origo, October 1943. March
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Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: Iris Origo
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002 - Publisher: Helen Marx Books

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Introduction by Ted Morgan When originally released in the early 1980s, New Statesman called Origo's final book 'a sensitive and beautifully written book by a r