Greene on Capri - A Memoir

Zusatztext Charming... succinct and satisfying... her memoir! like the island it so fondly describes! is a real gem to which the reader will wish to return Informationen zum Autor Born in Sydney in 1931 to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. After the end of the Second World War her father joined the Foreign Service and was posted in Hong Kong and there at the age of sixteen, Shirley Hazzard began working for the British Combined Intelligence Services before the family moved to New Zealand. At twenty she moved to New York and there she worked for the United Nations throughout much of the 1950s, which included a posting to Naples, a city that became much loved by her. She married Francis Steegmuller, translator and biographer in 1963 and they divided their time between Italy and New York. They were introduced by Muriel Spark. Shirley Hazzard wrote three non-fiction books including a memoir of her friendship with Graham Greene, Greene on Capri . Her last novel, The Great Fire, won the 2003 National Book Award for fiction and the Miles Franklin Award, was shortlisted for The Women's Prize for Fiction (then called The Orange) and named a Book of the Year by The Economist . She died in 2016, aged eight-five. Klappentext * The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS* The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS Zusammenfassung * The subtle portrait of a great but difficult man on the legendary island of Capri by the renowned author of THE TRANSIT OF VENUS

Product details

• Authors: Shirley Hazzard (Deceased), Shirley Hazzard, Hazzard Shirley
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2001
• EAN: 9781860498732
• ISBN: 978-1-86049-873-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 12 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Italy, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Ancient (Classical) Greek, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form