{"product_id":"images-and-shadows-part-of-a-life-9781782272663","title":"Images and Shadows: Part of a Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lucidly written memoir of Iris Origo, the writer of the bestselling War in Val d'Orcia  It has only been through my affections that I have been able to perceive, however imperfectly, some faint \"intimations of immortality\"  Images and Shadows is the story of those affections: for a loving, shy father, who died when his daughter was very young; for a vital, headstrong mother; for friends and family, alive and dead. And for the places Origo lived: Ireland, America, England; the childhood home in the hills above Florence; and her own beloved La Foce - the desolate, deforested estate which she and her Italian husband bought, and into which they poured the energy and patience of their best years.  Iris Origo (1902-1988) is best known as a biographer and war diarist. But in Images and Shadows she writes with characteristic grace, wit and humility, almost reluctantly, about herself. Reissued with newly discovered photographs, it is both a moving insight into a lost age, and an illumination of the life and loves of an endlessly curious and thoughtful woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElegant and intelligent Spectator A wonderful writer... Images and Shadows is as delicious and tear-inducing as Downton Abbey New York Times An elegiac autobiography... illuminating Telegraph Self-effacing and cultivated... gently percipient Kirkus Reviews A true cosmopolite of vast energy and stunning intelligence New York Times A masterly biographer here recounts her own story, and in this biography she is at her best -- Raymond Mortimer","brand":"Pushkin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469974540631,"sku":"9781782272663","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782272663.jpg?v=1744897049","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/images-and-shadows-part-of-a-life-9781782272663","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}