Images and Shadows

An extraordinary memoir by Iris Origo, who chronicled political life in A Chill in the Air and War in Val d'Orcia , and now turns inward to describe her own family, the work of writing, and the transcience of memory. Images and Shadows , Iris Origo’s autobiographical account of her early life, is as perceptive and humane and beautifully written as her celebrated memoir War in Val d’Orcia . Origo’s father came from an old and moneyed American family, her mother was the daughter of an Irish peer,