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Images and Shadows: Part of a Life - Softcover

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Origo, Iris

 
9780719556722: Images and Shadows: Part of a Life

Synopsis

The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Antonio Origo, and her work with refugee children, feeding partisans and helping Allied prisoners-of-war during the German occupation.

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Review

"All her work has delighted me, and in this autobiography she is at her best." -- Raymond Mortimer

From the Publisher

This delightful and evocative memoir was orginally published in 1970 to enthusiatsic acclaim and has given pleasure to all those who have read it ever since.

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