# Inverno - Hardcover

by **Cynthia Zarin** (Author)

**A daring, heartbreaking novel, _Inverno_ is the book that J. D. Salinger's Franny Glass might have written a few decades into her adulthood.  
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Caroline waited for fifteen minutes in the snow. After a little time had passed, she was simply waiting to see what would happen. It was entirely possible he would not come. If he did not come, she would be in a different story than the one she had imagined, but it was possible, she knew, to imagine anything._

_Inverno_ is a love story that stretches across decades. _Inverno_ is also the story of Caroline, waiting in Central Park in a snowstorm for her phone to ring, yards from where, thirty years ago, Alastair, as a boy, hid in the trees. Will he call? Won't he? The story moves the way the mind does: years flash by in an instant--now we are in the perilous world of fairy tale, now stranded anew in childhood, with its sorrows and harsh words. Ever present are the complicated negotiations of the heart.

This brilliantly original novel by Cynthia Zarin, author of An Enlarged Heart, is a kaleidoscope in which the past and the present shatter. Elliptical and inventive in the mode of Elizabeth Hardwick's _Sleepless Nights_, _Inverno_ is miraculous and startling. It asks, How does love make and unmake a life?

### Author Biography

**Cynthia Zarin** is the author of five books of poetry, most recently _Orbit_ and _The Ada Poems_, as well as five books for children and two essay collections, _Two Cities_ and _An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History_. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award for Poetry, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. A longtime contributor to _The New Yorker_, she teaches at Yale University and lives in New York Cit

**Number of Pages:** 144

**Dimensions:** 0.41 x 8.58 x 5.61 IN

**Publication Date:** January 09, 2024

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