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Article: Martha King. Grazia Deledda: A Legendarv Life.(Book review)

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Martha King. Grazia Deledda: A Legendarv Life. Leicester, UK: Troubador, 2005.

Grazia Deledda: A Legendary Life presents itself as "the first full-length biography of Deledda in English for an adult audience." A hybrid genre, it may be read both as the engaging story of the life of an important author and as a scholarly treatise. The biography demonstrates King's meticulous attention to what the written archives and present day Sardinian community tell us about the Sardininian author's life and socio-historical context. The reader will enjoy the narrative's smoothly flowing style and accessible language. One might go so far as to imagine that this style pays ...

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