The Collected Stories Of Shirley Hazzard Av Shirley Hazzard

<p><b><i>Collected Stories</i></b><b> includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard''s short story collections - <i>Cliffs of Fall</i> and <i>People in Glass Houses - </i>alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.</b><br><br> Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard''s <i>Collected Stories</i> is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard''s short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ''at once surgical and symphonic'' (<i>New Yorker</i>), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. <br><br> In an interview, Hazzard once said, ''The idea that somebody has expressed something, in a supreme way, that it can be expressed; this is, I think, an enormous feature of literature''. Her stories themselves are a supreme evocation of writing at its very best: probing, uncom