Hazzard, Shirley 1931-2016

People in glass houses by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
27 editions published between 1967 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 331 libraries worldwide
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

We need silence to find out what we think : selected essays by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
10 editions published between 2016 and 2017 in English and held by 270 libraries worldwide
Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work. Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the HIroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite - or maybe because of - the world's disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events defining postwar letters, thought, and politcs. -- from dust jacket

City of secrets : photographs of Naples by Jed Fielding( Book )
2 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 87 libraries worldwide

Cliffs of fall by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
13 editions published between 1963 and 2007 in English and held by 81 libraries worldwide
Whether set in the Italian countryside or suburban Connecticut, these short stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments in crisis. In the title piece, a young widow is surprised and ashamed by her lack of grief for her husband. In 'Harold", a gawky, lonely young man finds acceptance and respect through his poetry

Greene on Capri : a memoir by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
25 editions published between 2000 and 2018 in 5 languages and held by 64 libraries worldwide
"For millennia the cliffs of Capri have sheltered pleasure seekers and refugees alike, among them the emperors Augustus and Tiberius, Henry James, Rilke, Lenin, and hosts of artists, eccentrics, and outcasts. Here in the 1960s Graham Greene got to know 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 literary culture that long thrived on this ravishing island."--Jacket

Coming of age in Australia by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
3 editions published between 1984 and 1985 in English and held by 62 libraries worldwide

Die Maske der Wahrheit : zur Ohnmacht der Vereinten Nationen by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in German and held by 25 libraries worldwide

The transit of venus by Shirley Hazzard( Sound Recording )
8 editions published between 1983 and 2010 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide
Caroline and Grace Bell, two beautiful orphan sisters eager to begin their lives in a new land, journey to England from Australia. 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. The Transit of Venus 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

Transit der Venus by Shirley Hazzard( Book )
2 editions published in 2017 in German and English and held by 9 libraries worldwide

Elena Vivante : paintings by Elena Vivante( Book )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide