{"product_id":"hard-bread-paperback","title":"Hard Bread - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeg Boyers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in Peg Boyers's \u003ci\u003eHard Bread\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeg Boyers\u003c\/b\u003e is the executive editor of Salmagundi magazine at Skidmore College.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 8.64 x 6.02 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42724524851263,"sku":"9780226069654","price":60.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/08b42e64024fa2a6ed06ee49200887d6.webp?v=1765102967","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/hard-bread-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}