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Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Awardwinning author Shirley Hazzard's short-story collectionsCliffs of Fall and People in Glass Housesalongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories

Shirley Hazzard''s Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard''s heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in The Picnic, It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn''t cope with love. And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the ab

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    A Paperback / softback by Shirley Hazzard, Brigitta Olubas, Zoë Heller

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/11/2021
      ISBN13: 9781250800329, 978-1250800329
      ISBN10: 1250800323
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Awardwinning author Shirley Hazzard's short-story collectionsCliffs of Fall and People in Glass Housesalongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories

      Shirley Hazzard''s Collected Stories is a work of staggering breadth and accomplishment. Taken together, these twenty-eight short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical send-ups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. Hazzard''s heroes are high-minded romantics who attempt to fit their feelings into the twentieth-century world of office jobs and dreary marriages. After all, as she writes in The Picnic, It was tempting to confine oneself to what one could cope with. And one couldn''t cope with love. And yet it is the comedy, the tragedy, and the splendor of love, the pursuit and the ab

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