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Cliffs Of Fall by Shirley Hazzard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Features ten stories written with subtlety, humour and a keen understanding of the relationships between men and women. In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband.
People In Glass Houses by Shirley Hazzard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The People in Glass Houses work for an American-based concern devoted to 'inflicting improvement' the world over. Amongst them are sloppy but erudite Algie Wyatt; Swoboda, a Slav DP, who finally rebels against a daily inflow of documentation; modest Ashmole-Brown, whose surprise best-seller unseats Sadi ...Show more
The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard
$34.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Chicago History of American Civilization Ser.
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. The Ancient Shore collects the best of Hazzard?s writings on Naples, along with a classic New Yorker essay by her ...Show more
The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples by Shirley Hazzard
$25.95 AUD
Category: Travel
Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. "The Ancient Shore" collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic "New Yorker" essay by her ...Show more
The Bay Of Noon by Shirley Hazzard
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place. Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there. She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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short story collections - Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses - alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard by Shirley Hazzard
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard (HB) by Shirley Hazzard
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 Collect ...Show more
The Evening Of The Holiday by Shirley Hazzard
$26.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in the summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration -- a festival. Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is ...Show more
The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second W ...Show more
The Great Fire: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2004 by Shirley Hazzard
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent t ...Show more