🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£9.99
Out of Stock

In a Dark Wood

A Memoir of Grief, Healing and the Mysteries of Love

By (author) Joseph Luzzi
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: William Collins
Published: 30th Jun 2016
Dimensions: w 129mm h 198mm d 20mm
Weight: 230g
ISBN-10: 0008100667
ISBN-13: 9780008100667
Barcode No: 9780008100667
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
A story of love and grief. 'I became a widower and a father on the same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love. On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante professor, found himself racing to hospital - his wife, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible instant, Luzzi became both a widower and a first-time father. Adrift and grieving, Luzzi found himself sharing Dante's dark wood with an intimacy that years of reading had never shown him: the words became a wise companion through the Inferno of his grief, his healing, and ultimately his rediscovered love.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
''In a Dark Wood' charts Luzzi's journey through the hell of mourning and the purgatory of recovery, juxtaposing diapers and dating with demons and the damned ... there are many shrewd observations' Financial Times


Praise for Joseph Luzzi:


'Touches, lightly and elegantly, on politics, history, geography, sociology, language, literature, film, food and family ... [There are] deeply felt stretches of memoir' New York Times Book Review


'A thoughtful book about exile, the sense of displacement and confusion that those driven from their roots carry with them forever' Caroline Moorehead, Times Literary Supplement