The Bay Of Noon

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466800488
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bay of Noon written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Picador. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and thus changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374706352
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Fire written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction. A great writer's sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the center of the story, Aldred Leith, a brave and brilliant soldier, finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. Helen Driscoll, a young girl living in occupied Japan and tending her dying brother, falls in love, and in the process discovers herself. In the looming shadow of world enmities resumed, and of Asia's coming centrality in world affairs, a man and a woman seek to recover self-reliance, balance, and tenderness, struggling to reclaim their humanity.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429979259
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greene on Capri written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2000-02-07 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man and a legendary island. When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor. Graham Greene has already had biographers, one of whom has served him mightily. Yet I hope that there is room for the remembrance of a friend who knew him-not wisely, perhaps, but fairly well-on an island that was "not his kind of place," but where he came season after season, year after year; and where he, too, will be subsumed into the capacious story. For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure-seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, and Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene became friends with Shirley Hazzard and her husband, the writer Francis Steegmuller; their friendship lasted until Greene's death in 1991. In Greene on Capri, Hazzard uses their ever volatile intimacy as a prism through which to illuminate Greene's mercurial character, his work and talk, and the extraordinary literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing, enchanted island.

Author : Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110165984X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sister Noon written by Karen Joy Fowler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club. Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Francisco elite, is a seemingly docile, middle-aged spinster praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies Relief and Protection Society Home, or "The Brown Ark". All she needs is the spark that will liberate her from the ruling conventions. When the wealthy and well-connected, but ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark, Lizzie is drawn to her. It is the beautiful, but mysterious Mary Ellen, an outcast among the women of the elite because of her notorious past and her involvement in voodoo, who will eventually hold the key to unlocking Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143135651
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transit of Venus written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning, New York Times bestselling literary masterpiece of Shirley Hazzard—the story of two beautiful orphan sisters whose fates are as moving and wonderful, and yet as predestined, as the transits of the planets themselves A Penguin Classic Considered "one of the great English-language novels of the twentieth century" (The Paris Review), The Transit of Venus follows Caroline and Grace Bell as they leave Australia to begin a new life in post-war England. From Sydney to London, New York, and Stockholm, and from the 1950s to the 1980s, the two sisters experience seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal. With exquisite, breathtaking prose, Australian novelist Shirley Hazzard tells the story of the displacements and absurdities of modern life. The result is at once an intricately plotted Greek tragedy, a sweeping family saga, and a desperate love story.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of the Holiday written by Shirley Hazzard and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a summer holiday in Italy, a reluctant English woman experiences a love affair with a married man.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333110546
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bay of Noon written by Shirley Hazzard and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memory A young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of introduction from an acquaintance and so changes her life forever. Through the letter, she meets Giocanda, a beautiful and gifted writer, and Gianni, a famous Roman film director and Giocanda's lover. At work she encounters Justin, a Scotsman whose inscrutability Jenny finds mysteriously attractive. As she becomes increasingly involved in the lives of these three, she discovers that the past--and the patterns of a lifetime--are not easily discarded.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : Robert McNab
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Records of New Zealand written by Robert McNab and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ida Lee
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson written by Ida Lee and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" is a historical work written by Ida Lee. Published in 1915, the book focuses on the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, a ship known for its exploration along the coasts of Australia in the early 19th century. Ida Lee, an Australian author and maritime historian, edited and annotated the logbooks of the Lady Nelson, providing insights into the ship's voyages, discoveries, and interactions with Indigenous peoples. The Lady Nelson played a significant role in the exploration of Australian waters during the period. For readers interested in maritime history, early Australian exploration, and primary source documents from the age of sail, Ida Lee's "The Logbooks of the Lady Nelson" offers a valuable resource, shedding light on the challenges and discoveries made by this historic ship.