We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Hazzard, Shirley

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231173261)

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We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Hazzard, Shirley

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

$32.00
We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays by Hazzard, Shirley

We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays

$32.00
Format: Hardcover
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Spanning the 1960s to the 2000s, these nonfiction writings showcase Shirley Hazzard's extensive thinking on global politics, international relations, the history and fraught present of Western literary culture, and postwar life in Europe and Asia. They add essential clarity to the themes that dominate her award-winning fiction and expand the intellectual registers in which her writings work.

Hazzard writes about her employment at the United Nations and the institution's manifold failings. She shares her personal experience with the aftermath of the Hiroshima atomic bombing and the nature of life in late-1940s Hong Kong. She speaks to the decline of the hero as a public figure in Western literature and affirms the ongoing power of fiction to console, inspire, and direct human life, despite--or maybe because of--the world's disheartening realities. Cementing Hazzard's place as one of the twentieth century's sharpest and most versatile thinkers, this collection also encapsulates for readers the critical events defining postwar letters, thought, and politics.

Author: Shirley Hazzard
ISBN-10: 0231173261
ISBN-13: 9780231173261
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/05/2016
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2015
Publishers Weekly 10/12/2015
Library Journal 11/15/2015 pg. 84
By Shirley Hazzard
By Shirley Hazzard
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Shirley Hazzard won the National Book Award for her 2003 novel The Great Fire and the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Transit of Venus. She is the author of The Evening of the Holiday and The Bay of Noon, which was nominated for the Lost Booker Prize; Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene; and People in Glass Houses, a short-story collection based on her time at the United Nations. She lives in New York City and Capri.

Brigitta Olubas is professor of English in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. She is an editor of the Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature and the author of Shirley Hazzard: Literary Expatriate and Cosmopolitan Humanist.

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