{"product_id":"collected-stories-paperback-6","title":"Collected Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShirley Hazzard\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrigitta Olubas\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eZoë Heller\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e includes both volumes of the National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short-story collections--\u003ci\u003eCliffs of Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeople in Glass Houses\u003c\/i\u003e--alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShirley Hazzard's \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of staggering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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHazzard 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShirley Hazzard\u003c\/b\u003e (1931-2016) is the author of several works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eGreene on Capri\u003c\/i\u003e, a memoir of Graham Greene, and of fiction, including \u003ci\u003eThe Evening of the Holiday\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bay of Noon, The Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Great Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the National Book Award. She lived in New York City and Capri. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrigitta Olubas \u003c\/b\u003eis a professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her recent books are \u003ci\u003eWe Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Shirley Hazzard\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Elizabeth McMahon, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Harrower: Critical Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.66 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47251330990329,"sku":"9781250800329","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NmZ3akJWVWh0ZXc1QTBoVHBUb3QyUT09.webp?v=1768673547","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/collected-stories-paperback-6","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}