Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante - Hardcover

Tuck, Lily

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061472565 ISBN 13: 9780061472565

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

Synopsis

Traces the life and work of the forefront Italian author from her half-Jewish childhood in Rome and her flight from Nazi occupation to her marriage to celebrated writer Alberto Moravia and her prize-winning novels, in a portrait that also discusses her relationships with such contemporaries as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Carlo Levi. 20,000 first printing.

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Review

"Lily Tuck understands Morante instinctively-it is as if Morante has been waiting for her, as if this book is a part of all that she lived for." -- Susanna Moore

"A lovely and worthy biography, the first of Morante to appear in any language."--Washington Post

"Tuck is fascinated by Morante's drive to continually reinvent herself and blends memories of her own childhood into Morante's story, memories that add texture and a sense of honesty to the biography."--Los Angeles Times

"Woman of Rome is a dazzling read, full of passion for the odyssey of a writer."--Chicago Tribune

"Lily Tuck understands Morante instinctively--it is as if Morante has been waiting for her, as if this book is a part of all that she lived for."--Susanna Moore

"For worldly understanding alone, there is nothing of recent vintage quite like this entrancingly written and compellingly forthright biography."--Phillip Lopate

"Everyone who cares about the literature of the 20th century must be grateful to Lily Tuck for her measured, elegant, and revelatory biography of Elsa Morante."--Mary Gordon

"One literary doyenne takes on another in Lily Tuck's wonderful, sensitive biography of Elsa Morante...This is one not to miss, both for its subject and its exquisite prose."--Louisa Ermelino, Publishers Weekly (Staff Picks)

"Equal parts literary biography and liberation tract, this engaging volume...elegantly achieves its dual aims. Rarely have subject and biographer been so aptly matched."--Atlantic Monthly

."..well-researched, empathetic "Woman of Rome" is both a work of literary reclamation and an act of long, deep, devoted connection...[Morante's] life and work come alive in this account."--Boston Globe

About the Author

Born in Paris, LILY TUCK is the author of four previous novels: Interviewing Matisse, or the Woman Who Died Standing Up; The Woman Who Walked on Water; Siam, or the Woman Who Shot a Man, which was nominated for the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction; and The News from Paraguay, winner of theNational Book Award. She is also the author of the biography Woman of Rome: A Life of Elsa Morante. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and are collected in Limbo and Other Places I Have Lived. Lily Tuck divides her time between Maine and New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061472565
• ISBN 13: 9780061472565
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263