Collected Stories

Name: Collected Stories
Author: Shirley Hazzard

Auteur: Shirley Hazzard

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Shirley Hazzard Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller

Co-auteur: The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller

Engels
Paperback
9781250800329
02 november 2021
368 pagina's

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Shirley Hazzard

Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard traveled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of 16, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994. She has written several novels, two of which were National Book Award Finalists: The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981, available from Penguin). She is also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir Greene on Capri. Hazzard's most recent work, The Great Fire, won of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction and the Miles Franklin Award. She died in 2016.

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Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Awardwinning author Shirley Hazzards short-story collectionsCliffs of Fall and People in Glass Housesalongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories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.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 02 november 2021
Aantal pagina's: 368
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Shirley Hazzard
Tweede Auteur: Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Co Auteur: The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Hoofdredacteur: Brigitta Olubas
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador USA

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Product breedte: 142 mm
Product hoogte: 26 mm
Product lengte: 220 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 142 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 26 mm
Verpakking lengte: 220 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 431 g

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EAN: 9781250800329

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