Brigitta Olubas
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of "shocking wisdom" and "intellectual thrill" (The New Yorker)"--
Olubas draws on Hazzard's fiction, and on an extensive archive of private papers and the memories of surviving friends and colleagues, to create a resonant portrait of an exceptional woman. She traces the complex and intricate processes of self-fashioning that lay behind Hazzard's presence, and...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Including 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" (The New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut."--Provided by publisher....