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Issue Details: First known date: 1966... 1966 The Evening of the Holiday
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    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Macmillan ,       1966 .
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      Extent: 152p.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Knopf ,       1966 .
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      Extent: 152p.
    • Harmondsworth, Middlesex,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Penguin ,       1969 .
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      Extent: 137p.
      ISBN: 0140029125 (pbk.); 0140029125
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Playboy Press ,       1981 .
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      Extent: 152p.
      ISBN: 0872168743 (pbk.)
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,      :       Penguin ,       1988 .
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      Extent: 137p.
      ISBN: 0140104518 (pbk.)
Alternative title: Der Abend des festlichen Tages
Language: German
    • Vienna,
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      Austria,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Hamburg,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Zsolnay ,       1967 .
      Extent: 171p.
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The Short Fiction of Shirley Hazzard Brigitta Olubas , 2017 single work 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)
I Think You’re My Wife’ : Translation, Marriage, and the Literary Lives of Shirley Hazzard and Francis Steegmuller Brigitta Olubas , 2016 single work 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)
'This Intricate Lasting Nature' : Passage, Pastoral Elegy and The Pedagogy of Loss in The Evening of the Holiday Fiona Morrison , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 13-24)
Future Anterior : The Evening of the Holiday John Frow , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 3-12)
y separately published work icon Shirley Hazzard : Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist Brigitta Olubas , 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).
[Review] You Can't Come Back Suzanne Edgar , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 1966; (p. 12)
— Review of You Can't Come Back Bruce Beaver , 1966 single work novel ; The Evening of the Holiday Shirley Hazzard , 1966 single work novel
Untitled John Colmer , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September vol. 5 no. 11 1966; (p. 218-219)
— Review of The Evening of the Holiday Shirley Hazzard , 1966 single work novel
Untitled David Craig , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: New Statesman , 3 June 1966; (p. 817)
— Review of The Evening of the Holiday Shirley Hazzard , 1966 single work novel
Untitled L. V. Kepert , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 October 1966; (p. 17)
— Review of The Evening of the Holiday Shirley Hazzard , 1966 single work novel
The Light in the Piazza Leonie Kramer , 1966 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 September vol. 88 no. 4514 1966; (p. 44-45)
— Review of The Evening of the Holiday Shirley Hazzard , 1966 single work novel
Shirley Hazzard in Naples John Slavin , 2004 single work biography
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 263 2004; (p. 9-10)
y separately published work icon Shirley Hazzard : Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist Brigitta Olubas , 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).
Astronomer of Souls : Shirley Hazzard Paul Kavanagh , Peter Kuch , 1985 single work interview
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 45 no. 2 1985; (p. 209-219) Conversations : Interviews with Australian Writers 1991; (p. 95-110)
Shirley Hazzard : Glimpses of Paradise Horst Priessnitz , 1991 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: International Literature in English : Essays on the Major Writers 1991; (p. 335-350)
Shirley Hazzard : Dislocation and Continuity Robert Sellick , 1979 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 9 no. 2 1979; (p. 182-188)
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