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The Bay Of Noon
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-01-14
The Bay Of Noon written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Fiction categories.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass.
The Bay Of Noon
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
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The Great Fire
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-12-10
The Great Fire written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Fiction categories.
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.
Greene On Capri
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Greene On Capri written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him - not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well - on an island that was ''not his kind of place,'' but where he came season after season, year after year & where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story.' For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers & refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus & Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke & Lenin, plus hosts of artists, eccentrics & outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard & her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In GREENE ON CAPRI, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work & talk & the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.
Sister Noon
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Author : Karen Joy Fowler
language : en
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Release Date : 2015-05-14
Sister Noon written by Karen Joy Fowler and has been published by Serpent's Tail this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-14 with Fiction categories.
'Words were invented so lies could be told' Mary Ellen Pleasant San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions, home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination, and even the behaviour, of some residents. Lizzie Hayes, a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society Home, or the Brown Ark. She doesn't know it, but she's waiting for the spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy and well-connected but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan in tow, Lizzie is drawn to them both. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature. Based on real historical figures, San Francisco in the gilded age is brought vibrantly to life in Karen Joy Fowler's entertaining, evocative and sinister novel.
The Transit Of Venus
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-12-10
The Transit Of Venus written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-10 with Fiction categories.
Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted long and hopelessly by young scientist, Ted Tice, she is to find that love brings passion, sorrow, betrayal and finally hope. The milder Grace seeks fulfilment in an apparently happy marriage. But as the decades pass and the characters weave in and out of each other's lives, love, death and two slow-burning secrets wait in ambush for them.
The Evening Of The Holiday
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-01-14
The Evening Of The Holiday written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Fiction categories.
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration -- a festival. Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, author Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses in sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.
The Evening Of The Holiday
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Evening Of The Holiday written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Adultery categories.
During a summer holiday in Italy, a reluctant English woman experiences a love affair with a married man.
People In Glass Houses
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-01-14
People In Glass Houses written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Fiction categories.
The 'People in Glass Houses' work for an American-based concern devoted to 'inflicting improvement' the world over. Amongst them are sloppy but erudite Algie Wyatt, Swoboda, a Slav DP, who finally rebels against a daily inflow of documentation; modest Ashmole-Brown, whose surprise best-seller unseats Sadie Graine, the all-time corridor fixer; Jaspersen, who falls in and out of love with the Organization; and Clelia Kinslake, who meets the most critical non-crisis of her career in Crete. Shirley Hazzard's eight dazzling stories are linked by a scorching contempt for the Organization.
Collected Stories
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Author : Shirley Hazzard
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Collected Stories written by Shirley Hazzard and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Fiction categories.
Collected Stories includes both volumes of the 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 Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek. 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.