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The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard
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Description for The Great Fire
Paperback. The sweeping story of men and women struggling to reclaim their lives in the aftermath of world conflict by 'one of the greatest writers working in English today' (Michael Cunningham) and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
The Great Fire is Shirley Hazzard's first novel since The Transit of Venus, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981. The conflagration of her title is the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn, from their past, to dream again. Some will fulfill their destinies, others will falter. At the centre of the story, a brave and brilliant soldier finds that survival and worldly achievement are not enough. His counterpart, a young girl living in Occupied ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844080571
SKU
V9781844080571
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99-99
About Shirley Hazzard
Born in Sydney in 1931 to a Welsh father and Scottish mother. After the end of the Second World War her father joined the Foreign Service and was posted in Hong Kong and there at the age of sixteen, Shirley Hazzard began working for the British Combined Intelligence Services before the family moved to New Zealand. At twenty she moved ... Read more
Reviews for The Great Fire
Shirley Hazzard. For me, the greatest living writer on goodness and love . . . THE GREAT FIRE so overwhelmed me that I came close to being unable to read the last three pages. If the last sentence doesn't make you gasp and weep, you are not fully conscious . . . Shirley Hazzard, the quiet, playful, lovestruck artist of ... Read more