The Dry Heart -- Natalia Ginzburg, Paperback Bibles Ben would like to have

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The Dry Heart -- Natalia Ginzburg, Paperback Bibles Ben would like to haveThe 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