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The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard de Shirley Hazzard

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Autor Shirley Hazzard
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 noi 2020
SHIRLEY HAZZARD's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satires 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 world of office jobs and dreary marriages. And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy and the splendour of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her characters seek.


This marvellous volume includes the stories from Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses. Brigitta Olubas, Shirley Hazzard's biographer and editor of this collection has included two previously unpublished stories - `Le Nozze' and `The Sack of Silence' - found among Hazzard's papers. The remaining eight, formerly uncollected, stories were published in magazines, mainly the New Yorker, including her very first published story, 'Woollahra Road'.


On winning the Miles Franklin Award for The Great Fire in 2004 Shirley Hazzard wrote: 'Our world that seems charged with war is also the world in which the frail filament of expression miraculously persists and the phenomenon of the accurate word . . .'

Her stories themselves are miraculous expressions: understanding, probing, uncompromising and deeply felt.
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ISBN-13: 9780349012964
ISBN-10: 0349012962
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 32 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Little Brown
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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short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.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.

Notă biografică

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.