The Ancient Shore by Shirley Hazzard
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.
"Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a place, and a time, where 'nothing was pristine, except the light'" - Bookforum "Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place." - Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times "The two voices join in exquisite harmony.... A lovely book." - Booklist, starred review "An exquisite companion for the armchair traveler who dreams in the languages of literature and art.... A love letter to an ancient Italian city by the sea.... By temperament, I incline toward the understated appreciations of art and people I find in The Ancient Shore.... Such passages, simple as they are, constitute the unalloyed traces of love." - Mindy Aloff, Washington Post Book World"
Shirley Hazzard is the acclaimed author of four books of nonfiction and six novels, including the National Book Award - winning The Great Fire. Francis Steegmuller (1906-94) was an editor, translator, critic, and literary biographer.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226322018 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226322017 |
| Title | The Ancient Shore |
| Author | Shirley Hazzard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2008-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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