Shirley Hazzard

Collected Stories (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Olubas, Brigitta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Collected Stories includes both volumes of the 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short-story collections-Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses-alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories

Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard's heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in "The Picnic," "It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn't cope with love." And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the absence of it, that animates Hazzard's stories and provides the truth and beauty that her protagonists seek.

Hazzard once said, "The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature." Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncompromising, and deeply felt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780374720483
• Artikelnr.: 57079627

Autorenporträt

Shirley Hazzard; Edited by Brigitta Olubas; Foreword by Zoë Heller

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
FOREWORD BY ZOË HELLER
CLIFFS OF FALL
THE PARTY
A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY
VITTORIO
IN ONE'S OWN HOUSE
VILLA ADRIANA
CLIFFS OF FALL
WEEKEND
HAROLD
THE PICNIC
THE WORST MOMENT OF THE DAY
PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES
NOTHING IN EXCESS
THE FLOWERS OF SORROW
THE MEETING
SWOBODA'S TRAGEDY
THE STORY OF MISS SADIE GRAINE
OFFICIAL LIFE
A SENSE OF MISSION
THE SEPARATION OF DINAH DELBANCO
UNCOLLECTED / UNPUBLISHED
WOOLLAHRA ROAD
FORGIVING
COMFORT
OUT OF ITEA
THE EVERLASTING DELIGHT
THE STATUE AND THE BUST
LEAVE IT TO ME
SIR CECIL'S RIDE
LE NOZZE
THE SACK OF SILENCE
EDITOR'S NOTE