On Shirley Hazzard / Michelle de Kretser.
Publication details: Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., 2019.Description: 103 pages ; 19 cmISBN:- 9781760640194
- Michelle de Kretser on Shirley Hazzard
- Writers on writers
- A823/.3 23
- PR8264.A92 Z53 2019
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 823.3 DEK | Available | 069986 |
"In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work." -- Publisher's website
Includes bibliographical references.
'Hazzard was the first Australian writer I read who looked outwards, away from Australia. Her work spoke of places from which I had come and places to which I longed to go... It was reading as an affair of revelations and gifts. It fell like rain, greening my vision of Australian literature as a stony country where I would never feel at home'. In this essay on Shirley Hazzard, Michelle de Kretser offers a masterclass in engaging with a writer's work. She illuminates the precision of Hazzard's electrifying prose, and celebrated the intelligence, wit and fierce humanity of her fiction.