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Images and Shadows: Part of a Life (original 1970; edition 1998)

by Iris Origo (Author)

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The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Antonio Origo, and her work with refugee children, feeding partisans and helping Allied prisoners-of-war during the German occupation.

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Title:	Images and Shadows: Part of a Life
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Images & Shadows: Part of a Life by Iris Origo (1970)

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Agricola, Margriet	Translator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Images & Shadows: Part of a Life

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1970

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Iris Origo, Marchesa of Val d'Orcia

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Tuscany, Italy

Fiesole, Tuscany, Italy

Villa La Foce, Tuscany, Italy

Villa Medici, Fiesole, Italy

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National Book Award finalist (1972.4 | Arts and Letters, 1972)

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The autobiography of Iris Origo, this book recounts her childhood divided between three different worlds, New York, Ireland and Italy; her marriage to Antonio Origo, and her work with refugee children, feeding partisans and helping Allied prisoners-of-war during the German occupation.

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