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'The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.
'Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there.
'She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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The Short Fiction of Shirley Hazzard
2017
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essay
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 77 no. 3 2017; (p. 20-25)'Over a publishing career spanning a half-century from the early 1960s. Shirley Hazzard published four acclaimed novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1961), The Bay of Noon (1970), The Transit of Venus (1980) and The Great Fire (2003). These novels focus on the intertwined matter of low and loss: they rake her readers into complex moral territory, with the certainties and compulsions of sexual and romantic love tested throughout by individual vulnerability. At the same time, and much in the manner of novels written a century earlier, they take up what Harvard referred to as "public themes," that is, the substantial human matter of political and social life, played out against the backdrop of the globalising world of the second half of the twentieth century.' (Introduction)
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I Think You’re My Wife’ : Translation, Marriage, and the Literary Lives of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller
2016
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criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 73-87) 'The focus of this essay is the literary lives and afterlives of author Shirley Hazzard and her husband of 30 years, the late literary translator, biographer and Flaubert scholar Francis Steegmuller.' (73) -
'No-one Had Thought of Looking Close to Home' : Reading the Province in The Bay of Noon
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 41-54) -
Another Journey to Italy : The Bay of Noon
2014
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criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 25-40) - y Shirley Hazzard : Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist Amherst : Cambria Press , 2012 Z1869117 2012 multi chapter work criticism 'This study brings together Hazzard's highly regarded literary fiction and her impassioned, polemical critiques of the United Nations through the rubrics of her humanist thought and her deep commitment to internationalist, cosmopolitan principles. Chapter 1 provides the first critical analysis of Hazzard's public writings, paying particular attention to their rhetorical and poetic structures and their moral appeals. Olubas then works through each of Hazzard's published works of fiction in turn.In chapter 2, she analyses the two collections of short stories through their shared concern with the question of institutions--bureaucracy and marriage--in modern life. Chapter 3 turns to Hazzard's two early novels, both set in Italy, and examines the appeal made in each to Romantic poetry, and to the ways narrative, desire and death play out across the stories of love. Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to Hazzard's two great novels, The Transit of Venus and The Great Fire, respectively. The Transit of Venus is analysed as a melodrama, with particular focus on its complex narrative manipulation of concealment and revelation, and the ethical drive of its central love story. The final chapter focuses on the interplay of love and war in The Great Fire, and argues that this novel returns Hazzard's readers to her own journey, her departure from Australia at the pivotal points of post-war Asia: colonial Hong Kong and post-nuclear Hiroshima.' Source: http://www.cambriapress.com/ (Sighted 22/06/2012).
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Second Look
2005
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review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 23 October 2005; (p. 20)
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1970
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— Appears in: Advertiser , 22 August 1970; (p. 18)
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1970
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 September 1970; (p. 20)
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1970
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— Appears in: Commonweal , vol. 92 no. 1970; (p. 323-324)
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1970
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— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 5 April 1970; (p. 4-5)
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White in Line for Prize That Never Was
2010
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 February 2010; (p. 1) -
Named at Last, the Candidates for the Booker Prize for 1970
2010
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 3 February 2010; (p. 3) The Age , 3 February 2010; (p. 9) -
Aussies in Contention for Lost Man Booker
2010
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— Appears in: The Australian , 3 February 2010; (p. 9) -
White, Hazzard on Lost Booker Shortlist
2010
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— Appears in: The Age , 27 March 2010; (p. 11) -
Duo Books Prize Spot
2010
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 27 - 28 March 2010; (p. 31)
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Prix Femina (France) — Best Foreign Novel
- 2010 shortlisted The Booker Prize — Lost Man Booker Prize
- 1971 finalist National Book Awards (USA)
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cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,