{"product_id":"road-to-the-city","title":"Road to the City","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRoad to the City\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eNatalia Ginzburg\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780811234757\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew Directions\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2023\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eAn almost unbearably intimate novella, \u003cem\u003eThe Road to the City\u003c\/em\u003e concentrates on a young woman barely awake to life, who fumbles through her days: she is fickle yet kind, greedy yet abashed, stupidly ambitious yet loving too--she is a mass of confusion. She's in a bleak space, lit with the hard clarity of a Pasolini film. Her family is no help: her father is largely absent; her mother is miserable; her sister's unhappily promiscuous; her brothers are in a separate masculine world. Only her cousin Nini seems to see her. She falls into disgrace and then \"marries up,\" but without any joy, blind to what was beautiful right before her own eyes. \u003cem\u003eThe Road to the City\u003c\/em\u003e was Ginzburg's very first work, originally published under a pseudonym. \"I think it might be her best book,\" her translator Gini Alhadeff remarked: \"And apparently she thought so, too, at the end of her life, when assembling a complete anthology of her work for Mondadori.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Road to the City | Natalia Ginzburg | Hardcover | 9780811234757 | New | Fiction 1554278","offer_id":50576635560194,"sku":"1554278","price":32.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91nbCd5SN6L.jpg?v=1790917665","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/road-to-the-city","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}