{"product_id":"shirley-hazzard-a-writing-life-9781250872654","title":"Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first biography of Shirley Hazzard, the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Transit of Venus\u003c\/i\u003e and a writer of \"shocking wisdom\" and \"intellectual thrill\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eShirley Hazzard: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e tells the extraordinary story of a great modern novelist. Brigitta Olubas, Hazzard's authorized biographer, has drawn, with great subtlety and understanding, on her fiction; on an extensive archive of letters, diaries, and notebooks; and on the memories of surviving friends and colleagues to create this resonant portrait of an exceptional woman. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis biography explores the distinctive times of Hazzard's life, from her youth and middle age to her widowhood and years of decline, and traces the complex and intricate processes of self-fashioning that lay beneath Hazzard's formidable, beguiling presence. Olubas shows us the places of Hazzard's life, of which she wrote with characteristic lyricism, accompanied by rare photographs from Hazzard's collection and elsewhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHazzard was the last of a generation of self-taught writers, devotees of a great literary tradition, and her depth of perception and expressive gifts have earned her iconic status. Olubas has brought her brilliantly alive, enhancing and deepening our understanding of the singular woman who created some of the most enduring fiction of the past sixty years. As Dwight Garner wrote in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Hazzard's stories feel timeless because she understands, as she writes in one of them: 'We are human beings, not rational ones.'\" Here, in \u003ci\u003eShirley Hazzard\u003c\/i\u003e, is the story of a remarkable human being.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrigitta Olubas\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of English at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She published the first scholarly monograph of Shirley Hazzard's writing and recently edited two volumes of Shirley Hazzard's work: \u003ci\u003eWe Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eShirley Hazzard: A Writing Life\u003c\/i\u003e is her first biography.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526122443026,"sku":"9781250872654","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bac095ff-feee-4681-bab3-f73a15d80827.jpg?v=1731261103","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/shirley-hazzard-a-writing-life-9781250872654","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}