Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante

Name: Woman of Rome A Life of Elsa Morante
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ISBN: 9780061472565

ISBN-10: 0061472565

ISBN-13: 9780061472565

Edition: 2008

Authors: Lily Tuck

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Elsa Morante was born in 1912 to an unconventional family of modest means. She grew up with an independent spirit, a formidable will, and a commitment to writing-she wrote her first poem when she was just two years old. During World War II, Morante and her husband, the celebrated writer Alberto Moravia, were forced to flee occupied Rome-Moravia was half-Jewish (as was she) and wanted by the Fascists-and hide out in a remote mountain hut. After the war, Morante published a series of prize-winning novels, including Arturo's Island and History, a seminal account of the war, which established her as one of the leading Italian writers of her day. Lily Tuck's elegant and unusual biography also…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 7/29/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Lily Tuck was born in Paris and is the author of three previous novels - Interviewing Matisse, The Woman Who Walked on Water and the PEN/Faulkner award finalist Siam - as well as a collection of stories, Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review. She lives in New York City.



Introduction



Two Uncles



Secret Games



Diary 1938



The War Years



House of Liars



Rome



Arturo's Island



Without the Comfort of Religion



Poetry and Pasolini



The World Saved by Children



History



Aracoeli



Elsa's Death


Epilogue


Notes


Works by Elsa Morante


Acknowledgments


Index