The Dry Heart
1947
First Published
3.98
Average Rating
104
Number of Pages
The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator’s murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg’s writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don’t more wives kill their husbands?
Avg Rating
3.98
Number of Ratings
13,949
5 STARS
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4 STARS
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3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
3%
1 STARS
1%
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