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The poems in Peg Boyerss Hard Bread are spoken in the imagined voice of theItalian writer Natalia Ginzburg 191691. While much of the book is based onGinzburgs lifeher upbringing in Turin her brief marriage to the resistanceactivist Leone Ginzburg her experience of Fascism and war her work asnovelist playwright editor and newspaper columnist her embattledfriendships with writers like Primo Levi Pier Paolo Pasolini ErnestHemingway and Cesare Pavesemuch is invented. The result is a book by turnsmelancholy and acerbic mournful and satiric contemplative and combative. «
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