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Collected Stories

By Shirley Hazzard

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Collected Stories

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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short-story collections-Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses-alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment.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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
368
Release Date:
2021-11-02
Publication Date:
2021-11-02
Publisher:
Picador USA
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1250800323
ISBN13:
9781250800329
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
420 g
Height:
139 cm
Width:
219 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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