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Written as a memoir and told in twenty-five short chapters, Enchantments reveals a young Italian girl living in Paris with her parents and siblings. For the most part it is a happy life - joyful, in fact - and full of the things that children of her particular world and time do. She chooses new outfits for her doll, buys horses with her father, takes a ship to the States to visit her mother's family, eats ice cream at midnight, plays with the local children on visits to her father's farm. There are the regular trials and tribulations of a child's life: being tickle-tortured by her brother, betraying her younger sister, envying a classmate. All the while the darkening adult world around her is only implied, though we deduce the role her father plays in her life, and as we slowly see the young girl growing up, realizing her powers, the novel moves toward its deeply affecting finale.
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"[A] potent debut . . . genuinely, even nakedly, touching." -" The New York Times"
"Testifies to the pleasures of the examined life. . . . Shows us how simply a life is made, minute by minute, scene by scene." -"Los Angeles Times
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""Enchantments" looks back at the fairy-tale world that its narrator lived in . . . and celebrates the bittersweet wonder of having grown up in her own family. . . . Ferri handles the subject sure-handedly and gracefully." -"The Washington Post "
[A] potent debut . . . genuinely, even nakedly, touching. " The New York Times"
Testifies to the pleasures of the examined life. . . . Shows us how simply a life is made, minute by minute, scene by scene. "Los Angeles Times
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" Enchantments" looks back at the fairy-tale world that its narrator lived in . . . and celebrates the bittersweet wonder of having grown up in her own family. . . . Ferri handles the subject sure-handedly and gracefully. "The Washington Post ""
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"Testifies to the pleasures of the examined life. . . . Shows us how simply a life is made, minute by minute, scene by scene." -"Los Angeles Times
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""Enchantments" looks back at the fairy-tale world that its narrator lived in . . . and celebrates the bittersweet wonder of having grown up in her own family. . . . Ferri handles the subject sure-handedly and gracefully." -"The Washington Post "
[A] potent debut . . . genuinely, even nakedly, touching. " The New York Times"
Testifies to the pleasures of the examined life. . . . Shows us how simply a life is made, minute by minute, scene by scene. "Los Angeles Times
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" Enchantments" looks back at the fairy-tale world that its narrator lived in . . . and celebrates the bittersweet wonder of having grown up in her own family. . . . Ferri handles the subject sure-handedly and gracefully. "The Washington Post ""
Linda Ferri coauthored with Nanni Moretti the screenplay The Son’s Room, which won the Palme d’Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and was released by Miramax in 2002. She lives in Italy.
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- PublisherAlfred a Knopf Inc
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1400040698
- ISBN 13 9781400040698
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages131
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: NEW - COLLECTIBLE. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. BRAND NEW & Collectible. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/Fine. Novel following the format of a memoir. First published 1997 in Italian under the title Incantesimi; this is this First Printing of the English translation. Recollections of a young Italian girl, growing up in Paris, sometime after World War II. 131 pgs, in 25 short chapters of vignettes recounting moments of betraying a younger sister, losing a pet, to learning about love and boys. Seller Inventory # 019265
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