Whether she is describing a bettersweet love affair between a young girl and a married man, or the struggles of a young widow in search of a new life, Shirley Hazzard creates moving, evocative stories. These are written with subtlety, humor, and a keen understanding of the relations between men and women.
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"Miss Hazzard's mind is a revolving light that picks a scene, holds it in utmost clarity for a moment against the surrounding darkness, and moves on."--The New York Times
"Shirley Hazzard has such a treasury of style that she can enconomize or splurge, and, because her taste is unerring, every expenditure is right."--Vogue
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"Shirley Hazzard has such a treasury of style that she can enconomize or splurge, and, because her taste is unerring, every expenditure is right."--Vogue
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Shirley Hazzard is the author, most recently, of Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and several works of fiction, including The Evening of the Holiday, The Bay of Noon, and The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in
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- In Memoriam by Alfred Lord Tennyson on page 145
- Greene On Capri: A Memoir. by SHIRLEY. HAZZARD in Front Matter
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
- The Bay of Noon: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
- Phineas Finn: The Irish Member (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope on page 186
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- The Evening of the Holiday by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
- The Bay of Noon: A Novel by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
- Greene on Capri: A Memoir by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
- Desiring Italy: Women Writers Celebrate the Passions of a Country and Culture by Susan Cahill on page 288
- The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard in Front Matter
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