{"product_id":"the-collected-stories-of-shirley-hazzard-1","title":"The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard's short story collections - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCliffs of Fall\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeople in Glass Houses - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ealongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard's short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, 'at once surgical and symphonic' (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e In an interview, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Published: UK, 2021\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: Virago\u003cbr\u003e Pages: 368\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 13: 9780349012971\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 10: 9780349012971\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Shirley Hazzard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43613824778506,"sku":"","price":13.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/products\/B07T5XM5GD.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500.jpg?v=1657447880","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/the-collected-stories-of-shirley-hazzard-1","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}