{"product_id":"the-ancient-shore-shirley-hazzard-9780226322025","title":"The Ancient Shore: Dispatches from Naples","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn in Australia, Shirley Hazzard first moved to Naples as a young woman in the 1950s to take up a job with the United Nations. It was the beginning of a long love affair with the city. \u003ci\u003eThe Ancient Shore \u003c\/i\u003ecollects the best of Hazzard's writings on Naples, along with a classic \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e essay by her late husband, Francis Steegmuller. For the pair, both insatiable readers, the Naples of Pliny, Gibbon, and Auden is constantly alive to them in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Hazzard as our guide, we encounter Henry James, Oscar Wilde, and of course Goethe, but Hazzard's concern is primarily with the Naples of our own time--often violently unforgiving to innocent tourists, but able to transport the visitor who attends patiently to its rhythms and history. A town shadowed by both the symbol and the reality of Vesuvius can never fail to acknowledge the essential precariousness of life--nor, as the lover of Naples discovers, the human compassion, generosity, and friendship that are necessary to sustain it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully illustrated by photographs from such masters as Henri Cartier-Bresson and Herbert List, \u003ci\u003eThe Ancient Shore \u003c\/i\u003eis a lyrical letter to a lifelong love: honest and clear-eyed, yet still fervently, endlessly enchanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Much larger than all its parts, this book does full justice to a place, and a time, where 'nothing was pristine, except the light.'\"--\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deep in the spell of Italy, Hazzard parses the difference between visiting and living and working in a foreign country. She writes with enormous eloquence and passion of the beauty of getting lost in a place.\"--Susan Slater Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The two voices join in exquisite harmony. . . . A lovely book.\"--\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shirley Hazzard, Francis Steegmuller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226322025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226322025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.56w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/25\/2009 pg. 24","brand":"Shirley Hazzard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44119455203583,"sku":"9780226322025","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23c813e5-9589-48ea-8ce1-3d5f51a27c91.jpg?v=1687409448","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ancient-shore-shirley-hazzard-9780226322025","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}