The Iguana
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780914232957 (0914232959)
Publish date: 1987-10-01
Publisher: McPherson
Pages no: 198
Edition language: English
Born in Rome in the year 1914, Anna Maria Ortese grew up in southern Italy (primarily Naples) and in Lybia, the fifth of nine children of a soldier's family often short on money. Like many poor girls of her generation, Ortese left school at age thirteen, initially with the idea of studying (and then...