{"product_id":"collected-stories-of-shirley-hazzard-1","title":"Collected Stories Of Shirley Hazzard","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e includes both volumes of National Book Award-winning author Shirley Hazzard''s short story collections - \u003ci\u003eCliffs of Fall\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeople in Glass Houses - \u003c\/i\u003ealongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished stories.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Twenty-eight works of short fiction in all, Shirley Hazzard''s \u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of staggering breadth and talent. Taken together, Hazzard''s short stories are masterworks in telescoping focus, ''at once surgical and symphonic'' (\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), ranging from quotidian struggles between beauty and pragmatism to satirical sendups of international bureaucracy, from the Italian countryside to suburban Connecticut. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, uncompromising and deeply felt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57560361730430,"sku":"NW9780349012971","price":12.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780349012971.jpg?v=1781641527","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/collected-stories-of-shirley-hazzard-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}