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    UID:
    gbv_1764670051
    Format: x, 356 pages , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    ISBN: 9780374126483 , 0374126488
    Content: pt. I.Cliffs of fall.The party ;A place in the country ;Vittorio ;In one's own house ;Villa Adriana ;Cliffs of fall ;Weekend ;Harold ;The picnic ;The worst moment of the day --pt. II.People in glass houses.Nothing in excess ;The flowers of sorrow ;The meeting ;Swoboda's tragedy ;The story of Miss Saidie Graine ;Official life ;A sense of mission ;The separation of Dinah Delbanco --pt. III.Uncollected/unpublished.Woollahra Road ;Forgiving ;Comfort ;Out of Itea ;The everlasting delight ;The statue and the bust ;Leave it to me ;Sir Cecil's ride ;Le nozze ;The sack of silence.
    Content: "Including twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, "at once surgical and symphonic" (The New Yorker), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut."--Provided by publisher
    Language: English
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  • 2
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    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    UID:
    kobvindex_ZLB34494879
    Format: 368 Seiten
    ISBN: 9780374126483
    Content: 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short-story collections-Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses-alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment.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.
    Note: Englisch
    Language: English
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