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Seven Stories Press

A Place to Live

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Title: A Place to Live
Author: Natalia Ginzburg
ISBN: 9781583225707
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2003
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Revised
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description: Arguably one of Italy's greatest contemporary writers, Natalia Ginzburg has been best known in America as a writer's writer, quiet beloved of her fellow wordsmiths. This collection of personal essays chosen by the eminent American writer Lynne Sharon Schwartz from four of Ginzburg's books written over the course of Ginzburg's lifetime was a many-years long project for Schwartz. These essays are deeply felt, but also disarmingly accessible. Full of self-doubt and searing insight, Ginzburg is merciless in her attempts to describe herself and her world--and yet paradoxically, her self-deprecating remarks reveal her deeper confidence in her own eye and writing ability, as well as the weight and nuance of her exploration of the conflict between humane values and bureaucratic rigidity.