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Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Vassar Miscellany Monthly
Author: The Classical Weekly
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Category : Classical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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The Classical World
Author: A Handbook for Travellers in France ...
Author: John Murray (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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United States Naval Medical Bulletin
Author: Black's Picturesque Guide to the English Lakes ... Eighth Edition
Author: Adam BLACK (Publisher, and BLACK (Charles) Publisher.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 434
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Public Health Reports
Author: Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life
Author: Brigitta OlubasPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374718555
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of The Transit of Venus and a writer of “shocking wisdom” and “intellectual thrill” (The New Yorker). Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard’s authorized biographer, has drawn, with great subtlety and understanding, on her fiction; on an extensive archive of letters, diaries, and notebooks; and on the memories of surviving friends and colleagues to create this resonant portrait of an exceptional woman. This biography explores the distinctive times of Hazzard’s life, from her youth and middle age to her widowhood and years of decline, and traces the complex and intricate processes of self-fashioning that lay beneath Hazzard’s formidable, beguiling presence. Olubas shows us the places of Hazzard’s life, of which she wrote with characteristic lyricism, accompanied by rare photographs from Hazzard’s collection and elsewhere. Hazzard was the last of a generation of self-taught writers, devotees of a great literary tradition, and her depth of perception and expressive gifts have earned her iconic status. Olubas has brought her brilliantly alive, enhancing and deepening our understanding of the singular woman who created some of the most enduring fiction of the past sixty years. As Dwight Garner wrote in The New York Times, “Hazzard’s stories feel timeless because she understands, as she writes in one of them: ‘We are human beings, not rational ones.’” Here, in Shirley Hazzard, is the story of a remarkable human being.
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