The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (Omnibus)

The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (Omnibus)
Shirley Hazzard
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Paperback
h198 x 126mm - 368pg
7 Oct 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9780349012971
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Collected Stories includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard' s short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories. Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard' s Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard' s short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ' at once surgical and symphonic' (New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. In an interview, Hazzard once said, ' The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature' . Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising and deeply felt.
Shirley Hazzard is an author for whom there just aren' t praises high enough. Wise, elegant, generous, moving - to finish reading a book of hers is to feel bereft of something sublime
Born in Sydney in 1931 to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. After the end of the Second World War her father joined the Foreign Service and was posted in Hong Kong and there at the age of 16 Shirley Hazzard began working for the British Combined Intelligence Services before the family moved to New Zealand. At twenty she moved to New York and there she worked for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples, a city that became much loved by her. She married Francis Steegmuller, translator and biographer in 1963 and they divided their time between Italy and New York. They were introduced by Muriel Spark. Shirley Hazzard wrote three non-fiction books including a memoir of her friendship with Graham Greene, Greene on Capri. Her last novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award for fiction and the Miles Franklin Award, was shortlisted for The Women' s Prize for Fiction (then called The Orange) and named a Book of the Year by The Economist. She died on December 12 2016 aged 85.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780349012971
Published: 7 Oct 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Pages: 368

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