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Author Spotlight Group Read Project | Shirley Hazzard
In this video, I share my plans for a group reading project focusing on reading a fiction collection from one author in the order of publication. This year's pick will be Shirley Hazzard.
Below are my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below.
Blackwells:
tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35
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The new Author Spotlight Project on Shirley Hazzard sign-up:
https://forms.gle/Kcj2GMNz1EgJadpo9
** Please note this will be a five-month group read of multiple works of the author. And in order to participate, you must fill out the form.
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About Shirley Hazzard: (from Goodreads profile)
Author of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard eventually became a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States.
As a child she travelled the world due to her parents’ diplomatic postings and at 16, worked for the British Intelligence in Hong Kong, monitoring civil war in China. After this she lived in New Zealand, Europe, the United States and Italy. In the USA she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York.
After leaving this post, she became a full-time writer and passionate opponent of the United Nations, the subject of her book Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations (1973). She has also written non-fiction books Countenance of Truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim Case (1990) about the Kurt Waldheim case, and Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000) about her friend, Graham Greene. In 1985, Coming of Age in Australia was published, a collection of her Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer lectures.
Known for elegant and controlled writing, Hazzard’s works of fiction include five novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1966); People in Glass Houses (1967); The Bay of Noon (1970); The Transit of Venus (1980); and The Great Fire (2003). This book was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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The books we will read together will be:
The Evening of the Holiday (138 pages)
The Bay of Noon (336 pages)
The Transit of Venus (352 pages)
The Great Fire (336 pages)
Short Stories (368 pages)
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Some articles about her work:
theparisreview.org/interviews/5505/the-art-of-fiction-no-185-shirley-hazzard
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/shirley-hazzard-and-the-art-of-outsized-intimacy
theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/14/shirley-hazzard-obituary
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Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support.
You can find me:
I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter.
I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram
I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com
#authorspotlight
Author Spotlight Group Read Project | Shirley Hazzard
In this video, I share my plans for a group reading project focusing on reading a fiction collection from one author in the order of publication. This year's pick will be Shirley Hazzard.
Below are my links to Blackwells, Bookshop.org, and Book of the Month Club should you want to purchase any of the books listed below.
Blackwells:
tinyurl.com/yc3bjt35
___
The new Author Spotlight Project on Shirley Hazzard sign-up:
https://forms.gle/Kcj2GMNz1EgJadpo9
** Please note this will be a five-month group read of multiple works of the author. And in order to participate, you must fill out the form.
___
About Shirley Hazzard: (from Goodreads profile)
Author of fiction and non-fiction. Born in Australia, Shirley Hazzard eventually became a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States.
As a child she travelled the world due to her parents’ diplomatic postings and at 16, worked for the British Intelligence in Hong Kong, monitoring civil war in China. After this she lived in New Zealand, Europe, the United States and Italy. In the USA she worked for the United Nations Secretariat in New York.
After leaving this post, she became a full-time writer and passionate opponent of the United Nations, the subject of her book Defeat of an Ideal: A Study of the Self-Destruction of the United Nations (1973). She has also written non-fiction books Countenance of Truth: the United Nations and the Waldheim Case (1990) about the Kurt Waldheim case, and Greene on Capri: A Memoir (2000) about her friend, Graham Greene. In 1985, Coming of Age in Australia was published, a collection of her Australian Broadcasting Corporation Boyer lectures.
Known for elegant and controlled writing, Hazzard’s works of fiction include five novels: The Evening of the Holiday (1966); People in Glass Houses (1967); The Bay of Noon (1970); The Transit of Venus (1980); and The Great Fire (2003). This book was shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the 2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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The books we will read together will be:
The Evening of the Holiday (138 pages)
The Bay of Noon (336 pages)
The Transit of Venus (352 pages)
The Great Fire (336 pages)
Short Stories (368 pages)
___
Some articles about her work:
theparisreview.org/interviews/5505/the-art-of-fiction-no-185-shirley-hazzard
newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/shirley-hazzard-and-the-art-of-outsized-intimacy
theguardian.com/books/2016/dec/14/shirley-hazzard-obituary
___
Thanks to all who have subscribed to my channel! I appreciate the support.
You can find me:
I'm @hardcoverhearts on Litsy and on Twitter.
I'm @hardcoverheartsblog on Instagram
I restarted my blog at hardcoverhearts.com
