The Evening Of The Holiday by Shirley Hazzard

The Evening Of The Holiday by Shirley Hazzard

From the prizewinning author of The Great Fire comes 'an authentic work of art . . . A cause for delight and gratitude . . . Beautiful, absorbing, satisfying' Chicago Tribune

'Charged with great power.. The impact on the reader is extraordinarily intense' New York Times Book Review 'Short, elegant, and very good ... A beautifully precise, ironic, and yet evocative style' New York Review of Books

Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016) was born in Australia and travelled the world during her early years, a result of her parents' diplomatic postings. In 1947, at the age of sixteen, she was engaged by British intelligence to monitor the civil war in China. At twenty, she moved to New York, working for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples. Muriel Spark introduced her to the translator and biographer Francis Steegmuller, whom Hazzard married in 1963. Her novels The Bay of Noon (1971) and The Transit of Venus (1981) were National Book Award finalists, while her last novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award, Miles Franklin Award and was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She was also the author of two collections of short stories, and several works of nonfiction including the memoir Greene on Capri.

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ISBN 13	9781844082179
ISBN 10	1844082172
Title	The Evening Of The Holiday
Author	Shirley Hazzard
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2006-09-07
Number of pages	160
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