THE LIZARDS

by Alessandra Lavagnino ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 12, 1972

A short novel in translation from the Italian which slides over the surfaces of experience, remembering here, noticing there, questioning often by implication as young Marzia grows up in a fatherless household, communicating most freely with herself. Nor does she realize how much is unsaid and unacknowledged between herself and her mother, a lawyer, until she chooses her own, different vocation and until she attends her mother through the long days and even longer nights of a racking death -- cancer. And comes to realize how much is lost or perhaps not even exchanged between people who love. . . . Ms. Lavagnino invests this tentative reconnaissance with gentleness and, superficially, the darting detail lends a young, febrile animation.

Pub Date: April 12, 1972

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 1972

Categories: FICTION