Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, Zoë Heller

Free downloaded audio books Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, Zoë Heller 9780374126483 English version

Collected Stories
Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, Zoë Heller
Page: 368
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9780374126483
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Free downloaded audio books Collected Stories by Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, Zoë Heller 9780374126483 English version

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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short-story collections—Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses—alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories Shirley Hazzard's Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment.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.

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