The Dry Heart Author:Natalia Ginzburg Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriageThe Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement, ?I shot him between the eyes.? Everything in between is a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness?and as the tale proceeds, the narrator?s murder of her flighty hus... more »band takes on a certain logical inevitability.
In this powerful novella, Natalia Ginzburg?s writing is white-hot, fueled by rage, stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality; she transforms an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that might pose the question: why don?t more wives kill their husbands?« less