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The lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val d'Orcia
It has only been through my affections that I have been able to perceive, however imperfectly, some faint "intimations of immortality"
Images and Shadows is the story of those affections: for a loving, shy father, who died when his daughter was very young; for for a vital, headstrong mother; for friends and family, alive and dead. And for the places Origo lived: Ireland, America, England; the childhood home in the hills above Florence; and her own beloved La Foce - the desolate, deforested estate which she and her Italian husband bought, and into which they poured the energy and patience of their best years.
Iris Origo (1902-1988) is best known as a biographer and war diarist. But in Images and Shadows, she writes with characteristic grace, wit and humility, almost reluctantly, about herself. Reissued with newly discovered photographs, it is both a moving insight into a lost age, and an illumination of the life and loves of an endlessly curious and thoughtful woman.
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'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
'In her biographies she was able to write precisely on the cusp between the two cultures, turning her work into a bridge of interpretation and understanding' --Tessa Hadley, London Review of Books
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'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
'In her biographies she was able to write precisely on the cusp between the two cultures, turning her work into a bridge of interpretation and understanding' --Tessa Hadley, London Review of Books
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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- PublisherPushkin Press
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1782272666
- ISBN 13 9781782272663
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- Number of pages384
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