Elsa Morante
Woman of Rome
Lily Tuck, who won the National Book Award in 2004 for her novel THE NEWS FROM PARAGUAY, captures the tempestuous life of Italian novelist Elsa Morante in this vivid biography. Morante was a journalist and occasional prostitute before she met her husba...
History
History was written nearly thirty years after Elsa Morante and Alberto Moravia spent a year in hiding among remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition...



