Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce journey through whisky’s early origins

journey through whisky’s early origins as an illicit alcohol made in the hills of Scotland and Ireland

Gollancz    ISBN: 9780575089914Extent: 672 pages

written by campaigner

ISBN: 9781529525175

but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond

Lexicon of Affinities by Ida Vitale #joyce journey through whisky’s early originsA prowl through words reveals the unstable character of the cosmos. With entries as varied as elbow, Ophelia, progress, the painter Giorgio Morandi, chess, Eulalia (a friend of the authors aunt), and unicorn, Ida Vitale constructs a dictionary of her long and passionately engaged artistic life. Taking the reader by the arm, she invites us to become her confidant, sharing her remarkable 20th century as a member of a storied generation of Latin American