The Estate of Shirley Hazzard Steegmuller
Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia, and in early years traveled the world with her parents due to their diplomatic postings. At sixteen, living in Hong Kong, she was engaged by British Intelligence, where, in 1947-48, she was involved in monitoring the civil war in China. Thereafter, she lived in New Zealand and in Europe; in the United States, where she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York; and in Italy. In 1963, she married the writer Francis Steegmuller, who died in 1994.Ms. Hazzard's novels are The Evening of the Holiday (1966), The Bay of Noon (1970), The Transit of Venus (1981) and The Great Fire (2003). She is also the author of two collections of short fiction, Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories (1963) and People in Glass Houses (1967). Her nonfiction works include Defeat of an Ideal (1973), Countenance of Truth (1990), and the memoir Greene on Capri (2000). She lived in New York, with sojourns in Italy.
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Collected Stories
Shirley Hazzard; Edited by Brigitta Olubas; Foreword by Zoë Heller
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The collected short fiction of a master prose stylist
Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard’s Collected Stories is a work of staggering...
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People in Glass Houses
Shirley Hazzard
Picador
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Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity...
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Cliffs of Fall
Shirley Hazzard
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Picador
From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointment
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The Evening of the Holiday
Shirley Hazzard
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Picador
In the words of Time magazine, "A near perfect novel...a small masterpiece" by the author of The Great Fire
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent...
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The Bay of Noon
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Picador
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Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory
A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone...
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Greene on Capri
Shirley Hazzard
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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...
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