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The first critical monograph on Shirley Hazzard

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June 2013, no. 352

Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist by Brigitta Olubas

Cambria Press, $114.99 hb, 279 pp, 9781604978049

The first critical monograph on Shirley Hazzard

by
June 2013, no. 352

The cover of Shirley Hazzard’s The Great Fire shows a vast and terrible conflagration. Flames reach high into the sky, devouring the air and seeming to set the wide river alight. In the distance, an eerily familiar pair of ghostly towers rises above the smoke. In the foreground, tiny human figures move around as a boat sets off towards the fire, perhaps in some desperate attempt at rescue. The painting is The Burning of the Houses of Parliament by J.M.W. Turner. Shirley Hazzard chose this image herself for the cover of the novel, which won both the Miles Franklin and National Book Awards in 2003.

Paul Morgan reviews 'Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist' by Brigitta Olubas

Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist

by Brigitta Olubas

Cambria Press, $114.99 hb, 279 pp, 9781604978049

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