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Images and shadows : part of a life
- Title
- Images and shadows : part of a life / by Iris Origo ; afterword by Katia Lysy.
- Author
- Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Lysy, Katia
- Description
- 390 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Images and Shadows, Iris Origo's autobiographical account of her early life, is as extraordinarily perceptive and humane and as beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in the Val d'Orcia. Origo's father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer, and she grew up under the most privileged of circumstances, moving between family estates in Long Island and Ireland while also traveling the world. Tragedy struck when her father, not yet 30, died of tuberculosis and at his request--'Bring her up where she does not belong, ' he had enjoined his wife--her mother moved to Fiesole, where she and Iris developed a close friendship with their neighbor, the influential American connoisseur and art historian--a great and fascinating character, too--Bernard Berenson. Introduced early to both American and British high society, Origo eventually found fulfillment in tending to the life of the desolate and deforested country estate she and her Italian husband bought in Italy, which is where she also discovered her true calling as a writer. In Images and Shadows, she paints portraits of her shy, loving father and her headstrong mother, describes beloved places, the books that formed her sensibility, and how she grew up and made her way in the world. She reflects on the pleasures and challenges of writing and evokes both the persistence and fragility of memory. Images and Shadows is an autobiography that is as thoughtful as it is profoundly touching"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Subjects
- Women critics
- Critics
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959
- Friendship
- Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959 > Friends and associates
- Women critics > Italy > Biography
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Critics > Italy > Biography
- 1900-1999
- Orcia River Valley (Italy) > Biography
- Origo, Iris, 1902-1988
- Italy > Orcia River Valley
- Orcia River Valley (Italy) > Intellectual life > 20th century
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
- Intellectual life
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biographies.
- Note
- Originally published in 1970.
- Copyright ©2017 by the Estate of Iris Origo ; afterword copyright ©2019 by Katia Lysy.
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Westbrook -- Desart Court -- My father -- My mother -- Childhood at Fiesole -- Reading and learning -- Growing up and coming out -- Writing -- La Foce -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-1403
- ISBN
- 9781681373652
- 1681373653
- LCCN
- 2019007414
- OCLC
- 1083224171
- Author
- Origo, Iris, 1902-1988, author.
- Title
- Images and shadows : part of a life / by Iris Origo ; afterword by Katia Lysy.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classics
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Lysy, Katia, writer of afterword.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Origo, Iris, 1902-1988. Images and shadows. New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681373669 (DLC) 2019016174
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-1403