Hard Bread

Author/Contributor(s):	Boyers, Peg
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Date:	04/11/2002
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The poems in Peg Boyers's Hard Bread are spoken in the imagined voice of the Italian writer, Natalia Ginzburg (1916-91). While much of the book is based on Ginzburg's life--her upbringing in Turin; her brief marriage to the resistance activist, Leone Ginzburg; her experience of Fascism and war; her work as novelist, playwright, editor, and newspaper columnist; her embattled friendships with writers like Primo Levi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Ernest Hemingway, and Cesare Pavese--much is invented. The result is a book by turns melancholy and acerbic, mournful and satiric, contemplative and combative.