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The autobiography of Iris Origo.
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Review
'Elegant and intelligent' -- Spectator
'A wonderful writer... Images and Shadows is as delicious and tear-inducing as Downton Abbey' -- New York Times
'An elegiac autobiography... illuminating' -- Telegraph
'Self-effacing and cultivated... gently percipient' -- Kirkus Reviews
'A true cosmopolite of vast energy and stunning intelligence' -- New York Times
'A masterly biographer here recounts her own story, and in this biography she is at her best' --Raymond Mortimer
'Origo was a remarkable writer, with a clear, engaging style, a mind steeped in history and scholarship, but alive always to the nuances and subtleties of human relationships. The hope is that [Pushkin's republication of her work] bring her a new generation of readers' --TLS
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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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Paperback. Condition: Good. 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. Seller Inventory # 00104736686
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