People in Glass Houses

Literature & Fiction

Shirley Hazzard

Short Stories & Anthologies

Penguin

STUDY OF THE SELF-DESTRUCTION OF THE UNITED NATIONS. A history of the United Nations Organization centered on the increasingly paralyzed, the hitherto unapprised, international secretariat. The author's fifth book.

Defeat of an Ideal: A study of the self-destruction of the United Nations

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Little,Brown

Defeat of an Ideal: The Self-Destruction of the United Nations

Macmillan

A lavishly illustrated tribute to the locales and culture of Italy features the writings of such contributors as Jan Morris, Francine Prose, and Muriel Spark, in a collection of essays that encompass historical information, personal anecdotes, and travel tips. 17,500 first printing.

Italy: The Best Travel Writing from the New York Times

Muriel Spark

ALISON LURIE

Olivier Bernier

Frank Bruni

William Murray

Frank J. Prial

Francine Prose

jan-morris

World Literature

Harry N. Abrams

The masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard (1931-2016), The Transit of Venus won the National Book Critic's Circle Award and was a finalist for the National Book AwardThe Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Hazzard's novel is a story of place: Sydney, London, New York, Stockholm; of time: from the fifties to the eighties; and above all, of women and men in their passage through the displacements and absurdities of modern life.

The Transit of Venus

Literary

Playboy Paperbacks

Shirley Hazzard's stories are portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, the stories deal with real people and real problems.

Cliffs of Fall

Jove Pubns March 1986

Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of singular spirits--of men and women for whom life is an adventure no Organization can quell, and whose souls remain their own.

Jove Pubns

The Great Fire

From The New Yorker: Hazzard is nothing if not discriminating. Hierarchies of feeling, perception, and taste abound in her writing, and this novel-her first in more than twenty years-takes on the very notion of what it means to be civilized. The fire of the title refers primarily to the atomic bombing of Japan, but also to the possibility of transcendent passion in its aftermath. In 1947, a thirty-two-year-old English war hero visiting Hiroshima during the occupation finds himself billeted in a compound overseen by a boorish Australian brigadier and his scheming wife. He is immediately enchanted, however, by the couple's children-a brilliant, sickly young man and his adoring sister-who prove to be prisoners in a different sort of conflict. In the ensuing love story, Hazzard's moral refinement occasionally veers toward preciosity, but such lapses are counterbalanced by her bracing conviction that we either build or destroy the world we want to live in with our every word and gesture. Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker

Genre Fiction

RB Large Print

Contemporary

Virago Press Ltd.

W.F.HOWES

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