Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller, Francis Steegmuller

The Ancient Shore

Dispatches from Naples

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. This work collects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples. Illustrated with photographs, it is a lyrical letter to a lifelong love.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 196g
• ISBN-13: 9780226322025
• ISBN-10: 0226322025
• Artikelnr.: 26524359

Autorenporträt

Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and lived in Hong Kong, Italy, and New Zealand before coming to the United States at the age of twenty. She was the acclaimed author of four books of nonfiction and six novels, including The Transit of Venus, which won the 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1980, and The Great Fire, which won the the National Book Award for fiction in 2003.