Shirley Hazzard

Dec 1, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Shirley Hazzard

. Sept. 2024. 15:29 hrs. ISBN 9798368975542. $75. F COPY ISBN In the 1950s, orphaned Australian sisters Caroline and Grace Bell relocate to London, where they stay in the home of eminent astronomer Sefton Thrale. Steady Grace meets Professor Thrale’s son, well-to-do bureaucrat Christian Thrale, and soon marries Christian and settles into a conventional relationship. Unlike her sister, Caroline strives for independence and ponders the vagaries of human relationships.

Sep 11, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Shirley Hazzard

Juliet Stevenson's voice in this production is like a spa tub, soothing and stimulating at the same time. The fact that she is narrating a masterpiece will keep listeners from being soothed to inattention. THE TRANSIT OF VENUS does have some astronomy in the background, but it is mostly a study of many of the forms of love, focused on the inhabitants of an English country house, beginning one summer in the 1950s and following them for the next three decades.

Aug 27, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Shirley Hazzard |Donald Keene

By Shirley Hazzard and Donald Keene August 27, 2024 Usami, Izu PeninsulaNovember 26, 1980Dear Shirley and Francis,My thoughts have been very much with you as more and more reports come in about the earthquake in southern Italy.

Mar 23, 2024 | shepherd.com | Niall Williams |Abraham Verghese |Shirley Hazzard |Catherine Jones

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…Niall Williams writes poetic prose about an Irish family in County Clare, Ireland. A bedridden daughter seeks to know her deceased father by exploring past generations of family history. This novel is more than a family story. It is a love letter to Ireland itself. By exploring the past, the protagonist discovers herself and experiences a healing experience by this discovery.

Aug 1, 2023 | powells.com | Shirley Hazzard |Amitav GhoshAmitav Ghosh |Bob Johnson |Upton Sinclair

When I started writing Mobility, I was interested in describing life from the perspective of a teenage girl in a place that’s unfamiliar to her, applying her fairly stereotypical teen interests to a very adult setting — the oil rush in newly independent Azerbaijan in the late 1990s, when representatives of multinational oil companies and freelance mercenaries flooded the former Soviet Union to capitalize on the spoils of its dissolution.